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say it: skeem
scheme is a noun and verb meaning "an elaborate and systematic plan of action". It carries 7 recorded senses.
an elaborate and systematic plan of action
a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole
“a vast system of production and distribution and consumption keep the country going”
an internal representation of the world; an organization of concepts and actions that can be revised by new information about the world
devise a system or form a scheme for
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for scheme come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.