leastways
/ˈliːstˌweɪz/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.45 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "“My advice, or, leastways, I should say, my orders, is,” said the fattest man of the party, “that we 'mediately go home again.”"
- "[…]so that I couldn't help telling her, sir, that in our country, leastways in Virginia (they say the Yankees are very pert), young people don't speak of their elders so."
- "‘Cook-housekeeper jobs don’t grow on trees,’ went on the woman, ‘leastways not where you can keep a youngster with you.’"
- "“I was lucky, just an arm (lost in combat), and the hope of a life, a normal man’s life, leastways”"
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ˈliːstˌweɪz/
Usage
- British usage
- Colloquial