stowage

Other forms of stowage

plural

stowages·

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 stowage

What does stowage mean?

stowage means "the charge for stowing goods". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in stowage?

stowage has 2 syllables: sto-wage. The stress falls on "sto".

What is another word for stowage?

Close synonyms include storeroom, storage room, stowing. 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 stowage a common word?

stowage 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.