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waterbased

adjective

waterbased is spelled W-A-T-E-R-B-A-S-E-D: 10 letters. It appears about once in every 71 million words in written English, the 265,644th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, waterbased means “Based on water” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in waterbased?

Letters10: W-A-T-E-R-B-A-S-E-D
In writingabout once in every 71 million words; the 265,644th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is waterbased?

Waterbased appears about once in every 71 million words in written English, the 265,644th 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).

Forms of waterbased

  • water-based

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

What does waterbased mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    Based on water.

    a waterbased paint

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

Waterbased in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense based on water:

LanguageWords
Germanwasserbasiert

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does waterbased come from?

From water + based.

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

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