getaway

Other forms of getaway

plural

getaways·

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 getaway

What does getaway mean?

getaway means "the attribute of being capable of rapid acceleration". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in getaway?

getaway has 3 syllables: get-a-way. The stress falls on "get". In IPA it is /ˈɡɛtəˌweɪ/.

What is another word for getaway?

Close synonyms include pickup, lam. 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 getaway a common word?

getaway is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. 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 getaway?

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