headway

Other forms of headway

plural

headways·

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 headway

What does headway mean?

headway means "vertical space available to allow easy passage under something". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in headway?

headway has 2 syllables: head-way. The stress falls on "head". In IPA it is /ˈhɛˌdweɪ/.

What is another word for headway?

Close synonyms include headroom, clearance, head. 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 headway a common word?

headway 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 headway?

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