washup

Other forms of washup

plural

washups·

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 washup

What does washup mean?

washup means "the act of washing yourself (or another person)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in washup?

washup has 2 syllables and divides as wa-shup 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 washup?

Close synonyms include bathing, dishwashing. 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 washup a common word?

washup 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.