safety

Other forms of safety

plural

safeties·

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 safety

What does safety mean?

safety means "the state of being certain that adverse effects will not be caused by some agent under defined conditions". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in safety?

safety has 2 syllables: safe-ty. The stress falls on "safe". In IPA it is /ˈseɪfti/.

What is another word for safety?

Close synonyms include refuge, guard, safety device, base hit, condom. 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.

What is the opposite of safety?

The recorded antonyms are danger.

Is safety a common word?

safety is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. 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 safety?

1 word rhymes with safety. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.