Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

sided

/ˈsaɪdɪd/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.94 in modern English

Syllables: sid-ed
IPA: /ˈsaɪdɪd/

7

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

2

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Having the specified type of side or sides or number of sides.

verb

simple past and past participle of side

Example Sentences

"The man switches off his leaf blower and turns to regard the mountain rising behind his yellow-sided Cape house with its split-rail fence and immaculate yard."
"By one measure, the Starbucks bottles can serve as the “perfect containers” for a Molotov cocktail, said Kevin B. Barry, a retired New York Police Department Bomb Squad technician who analyzes how explosives are used in conflicts around the world. “They are excellent for what you need, because it is a weak-sided bottle with a screw-on cap,” Mr. Barry said."
"An impenetrable ten-sided monolith, the never-realized structure was to be made of alabaster, with an astronomical tower and a spiraling internal staircase."

Etymology

From side (noun) + -ed (“having”).

Word Breakdown

Suffix: side

Derived Forms

equisided multisided polysided sidedness sobersided unsided

Phrases

bright-sided double-sided four-sided low-sided one-sided single-sided wall-sided

Rhymes With

decided provided divided misguided presided resided collided undecided subdivided undivided subsided confided

Questions

How do you pronounce sided?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈsaɪdɪd/.
What does sided mean?: Having the specified type of side or sides or number of sides.
Where does sided come from?: From side (noun) + -ed (“having”).

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