savagery

Other forms of savagery

plural

savageries·

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 savagery

What does savagery mean?

savagery means "the property of being untamed and ferocious". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in savagery?

savagery has 4 syllables: sav-a-ger-y. The stress falls on "sav". In IPA it is /ˈsævɪˌdʒɛɹi/.

What is another word for savagery?

Close synonyms include savageness, ferociousness, brutality, viciousness, brutality. 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 savagery a common word?

savagery 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.

What rhymes with savagery?

1 word rhymes with savagery. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.