or so

Questions about or so

What does or so mean?

or so means "(of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct".

What is another word for or so?

Close synonyms include approximately, about, close to, just about, some. 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 or so a common word?

or so 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.