sludge

Other forms of sludge

plural

sludges·

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 sludge

What does sludge mean?

sludge means "the precipitate produced by sewage treatment". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sludge?

sludge has 1 syllable: sludge. In IPA it is /ˈslʌdʒ/.

What is another word for sludge?

Close synonyms include slime, goo, goop, gook, guck. 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 sludge a common word?

sludge 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.