bye

Other forms of bye

plural

byes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bye

What does bye mean?

bye means "an automatic advance to the next round in a tournament without playing an opponent". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bye?

bye has 1 syllable: bye. In IPA it is /ˈbaɪ/.

What is another word for bye?

Close synonyms include pass, adieu, adios, arrivederci, auf wiedersehen. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bye a common word?

bye is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with bye?

16 words rhyme with bye. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.