lengthways

Other forms of lengthways

comparative

lengthwayser·

superlative

lengthwaysest·

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 lengthways

What does lengthways mean?

lengthways means "running or extending in the direction of the length of a thing". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in lengthways?

lengthways has 2 syllables: length-ways. The stress falls on "length". In IPA it is /ˈlɛŋˌθweɪz/.

What is another word for lengthways?

Close synonyms include lengthwise, lengthwise, longwise, longways, longitudinally. 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 lengthways a common word?

lengthways is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.