hays

Other forms of hays

plural

hayses·

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 hays

What does hays mean?

hays means "United States lawyer and politician who formulated a production code that prescribed the moral content of United States films from 1930 to 1966 (1879-1954)". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hays?

hays has 1 syllable: hays. In IPA it is /ˈheɪz/.

What is another word for hays?

Close synonyms include Will Hays, William Harrison Hays, Arthur Garfield Hays. 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 hays a common word?

hays is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. 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 hays?

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