washables

Questions about washables

What does washables mean?

washables means "garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering".

How many syllables are in washables?

washables has 2 syllables and divides as washa-bles 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 washables?

Close synonyms include laundry, wash, washing. 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 washables a common word?

washables 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.