haywire

1. 1.

   wire for tying up bales of hay

   Broaderwire

Other forms of haywire

plural

haywires·

comparative

haywirer·

superlative

haywirest·

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 haywire

What does haywire mean?

haywire means "informal or slang terms for mentally irregular". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in haywire?

haywire has 2 syllables: hay-wire. The stress falls on "hay". In IPA it is /ˈheɪˌwaɪɹ/.

What is another word for haywire?

Close synonyms include balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers. 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 haywire a common word?

haywire 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.