plumage

Other forms of plumage

plural

plumages·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about plumage

What does plumage mean?

plumage means "the light horny waterproof structure forming the external covering of birds".

How many syllables are in plumage?

plumage has 2 syllables: plu-mage. The stress falls on "plu". In IPA it is /ˈplumədʒ/.

What is another word for plumage?

Close synonyms include feather, plume. 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 plumage a common word?

plumage is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.