Soakage

Definition: Soakage

Soakage

Noun

1. The process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid); "a good soak put life back in the wagon".

Domain	Definition
Geography	Legal term for water that oozes, seeps sor filters through the soil without a definite channel in a course that is unknown or not discoverable. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Soakage

Synonyms: soak (n), soaking (n). (additional references)

Synonyms by domain: leakage water (geography), percolating water, percolation water, seep water, vandose water.

"Soakage" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Soakage" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	66.67%	2	245,945
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	33.33%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	3	N/A

Language		Translations for "soakage"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		perkolat (leachate, leakage water, percolating water, percolation water, seep water, seepage, vandose water), nedsivende vand (leakage water, percolating water, percolation water, seep water, vandose water). (various references)

Dutch		zakwater (leachate, leakage water, percolating water, percolation water, seep water, seepage, vandose water), kwelwater (leakage water, percolating water, percolation water, seep water, seepage, seepage water, vandose water), drupwater (leakage water, percolating water, percolation water, seep water, vandose water), doorsijpelingswater (leakage water, percolating water, percolation water, seep water, vandose water). (various references)

Finnish		suotovesi (leachate, leakage water, percolating water, percolation water, seep water, seepage, vandose water), vajovesi (leakage water, percolating water, percolation water, seep water, vandose water), tihkuvesi (leakage water, percolating water, percolation water, seep water, vandose water). (various references)

French		eau d'infiltration. (various references)

German		Sickerwasser (seepage water), Filterwasser (leakage water, percolating water, percolation water, seep water, vandose water). (various references)

Pig Latin		oakagesay

Portuguese		água de infiltração (leakage water, percolating water, percolation water, seep water, vandose water). (various references)

Spanish		agua de infiltración (leakage water, percolating water, percolation water, seep water, vandose water). (various references)

Thai		การแช่. (various references)

Turkish		çektiği sıvı miktarı, ıslatma (damping, drench, soak, steep, wetting), ıslanma (ducking, getting wet, soak, steep). (various references)

Vietnamese		sự thấm v� o (permeation), sự nhúng v� o nước thấm v� o, sự ngâm v� o (dip). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "soakage": soakages. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Soakage" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Sakaue. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "soakage" (pronounced 'Soak"age'): Abusage, Accourage, Adage, Adjustage, Alloyage, Amperage, Appendage, Arrearage, Berthage, Blindage, blockage, Boatage, Bondage, Borage, Bordage, Bossage, Breakage, Brewage, Buoyage, Burgage, Careenage, Cartage, Centage, Checkage, Chiefage, Clearage, Cloudage, Clownage, Coinage, Corage, Cordage, Corkage, Costage, Couage, Courage, Cranage, Crimpage, Cuinage, Encourage, Endamage, Escheatage, Floodage, Floorage, flowage, Foldage, Fraughtage, freightage, Frequentage, frontage, fruitage. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-e-g-k-o-s"
	-3 letters: agas, ages, asea, egos, gaes, goas, goes, kaas, kaes, keas, kegs, koas, oaks, okas, okes, saga, sage, sago, sake, sego, skag, skeg, soak, soke.
	-4 letters: aas, aga, age, ago, ask, ego, gae, gas, goa, gos, kae, kas, kea, keg, koa, kos, oak, oes, oka, oke, ose, sae, sag, sea, seg, ska.
	-5 letters: aa.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-e-g-k-o-s"
	+1 letter: soakages.
	+4 letters: karyogamies, passagework.
	+5 letters: overpackages, passageworks.
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