sewerage

Other forms of sewerage

plural

sewerages·

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 sewerage

What does sewerage mean?

sewerage means "waste matter carried away in sewers or drains". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sewerage?

sewerage has 3 syllables: se-we-rage. The stress falls on "se". In IPA it is /ˈsuɚɪdʒ/.

What is another word for sewerage?

Close synonyms include sewage, sewer, cloaca. 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 sewerage a common word?

sewerage 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.