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flowage

noun

flowage is a noun meaning “A flowing or overflowing of liquid” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-O-W-A-G-E, and it appears about once in every 19 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of flowage is flowages.

What does flowage mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A flowing or overflowing of liquid.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of flowage

  • flowages plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is flowage?

Flowage appears about once in every 19 million words in written English, the 131,834th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does flowage come from?

From flow + -age.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).