sea

Other forms of sea

plural

seas·

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 sea

What does sea mean?

sea means "a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sea?

sea has 1 syllable: sea. In IPA it is /ˈsi/.

What is another word for sea?

Close synonyms include ocean. 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 sea a common word?

sea 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 sea?

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