saying

Other forms of saying

plural

sayings·

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 saying

What does saying mean?

saying means "a word or phrase that particular people use in particular situations".

How many syllables are in saying?

saying has 2 syllables: sa-ying. The stress falls on "sa". In IPA it is /ˈseɪɪŋ/.

What is another word for saying?

Close synonyms include expression, locution. 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 saying a common word?

saying 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.