giveaway

Other forms of giveaway

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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 giveaway

What does giveaway mean?

giveaway means "a gift of public land or resources for the private gain of a limited group". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in giveaway?

giveaway has 3 syllables: giv-ea-way. The stress falls on "giv". In IPA it is /ˈɡɪvəˌweɪ/.

What is another word for giveaway?

Close synonyms include game show. 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 giveaway a common word?

giveaway 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 giveaway?

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