say

1. 1.

   the chance to speak

   “let him have his say”

   Broaderopportunity

Other forms of say

plural

says·

past tense or participle

said

present participle

saying·

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 say

What does say mean?

say means "express in words". That is the primary sense; the word has 12 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in say?

say has 1 syllable: say. In IPA it is /ˈseɪ/.

What is another word for say?

Close synonyms include state, tell, allege, aver, suppose. 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 say a common word?

say 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 say?

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