Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

ways

/weɪz/

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.06 in modern English

Syllables: ways
IPA: /weɪz/

10

Scrabble Score

4

Letters

1

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

noun

American usage; Informal

Example Sentences

"a little ways out"
"Stuck in traffic... and still a good ways to go."
"We walked a ways from my house to the mall."
"Now, we have no particular objection to this Santa Claus business, but will say what we have said before, that it is entirely overdone and a long ways from being proper in the so-called “christian America.”"
"“We still have a ways to go with patterns.” “You still have a ways to go with everything,” I told him."

Usage

American usage
Informal

Synonyms

shipway slipway

Homonyms

weighs

Rhymes With

days plays raise phase praise phrase pays stays essays displays rays surveys

Questions

How do you pronounce ways?: The recorded pronunciation is /weɪz/.
What does ways mean?: plural of way

How to pronounce ways

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