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Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

gray water

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.41 in modern English

Syllables
gray wa-ter
IPA
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Water that is not clean enough to be potable, such as having been used for washing, but not contaminated with fecal matter or other source of dangerous bacteria or dangerous or noxious materials.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

Usage

Inflected Forms

gray waters (plural) graywater (alternative) greywater (alternative) grey water (alternative)

Frequently Paired Words

black water sewage

Synonyms

sullage

Questions

What does gray water mean?
Water that is not clean enough to be potable, such as having been used for washing, but not contaminated with fecal matter or other source of dangerous bacteria or dangerous or noxious materials.

How to pronounce gray water

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