poundage

Other forms of poundage

plural

poundages·

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 poundage

What does poundage mean?

poundage means "a charge based on weight measured in pounds". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in poundage?

poundage has 2 syllables: poun-dage. The stress falls on "poun". In IPA it is /ˈpaʊndɪdʒ/.

What is another word for poundage?

Close synonyms include impoundment, impounding, internment. 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 poundage a common word?

poundage 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.