surplusage

Questions about surplusage

What does surplusage mean?

surplusage means "a quantity much larger than is needed".

How many syllables are in surplusage?

surplusage has 3 syllables and divides as sur-plu-sage under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for surplusage?

Close synonyms include excess, surplus, nimiety. 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 surplusage a common word?

surplusage 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.