paygrade

Questions about paygrade

What does paygrade mean?

paygrade means "rank in a military organization".

How many syllables are in paygrade?

paygrade has 2 syllables and divides as pay-grade under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for paygrade?

Close synonyms include military rank, military rating, rating. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is paygrade a common word?

paygrade is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.