spoilage

Other forms of spoilage

plural

spoilages·

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 spoilage

What does spoilage mean?

spoilage means "the amount that has spoiled". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in spoilage?

spoilage has 2 syllables: spoi-lage. The stress falls on "spoi". In IPA it is /ˈspɔɪlədʒ/.

What is another word for spoilage?

Close synonyms include spoiling, spoil, spoiling. 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 spoilage a common word?

spoilage 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.