water-wash

1. 1.

   wash with water

   Broaderwash

Questions about water-wash

What does water-wash mean?

water-wash means "wash with water".

How many syllables are in water-wash?

water-wash has 3 syllables and divides as wa-ter--wash 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.

Is water-wash a common word?

water-wash 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.