pathway

Other forms of pathway

plural

pathways·

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 pathway

What does pathway mean?

pathway means "a bundle of myelinated nerve fibers following a path through the brain". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pathway?

pathway has 2 syllables: path-way. The stress falls on "path". In IPA it is /ˈpæˌθweɪ/.

What is another word for pathway?

Close synonyms include nerve pathway, tract, nerve tract, footpath. 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 pathway a common word?

pathway 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.