wattage

1. 1.

   the product of voltage and current

   Synonymselectrical powerelectric power

   Broaderpower

   Narrowerload

Other forms of wattage

plural

wattages·

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 wattage

What does wattage mean?

wattage means "the product of voltage and current".

How many syllables are in wattage?

wattage has 2 syllables: wat-tage. The stress falls on "wat". In IPA it is /ˈwɑtədʒ/.

What is another word for wattage?

Close synonyms include electrical power, electric power. 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 wattage a common word?

wattage is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.