sideway

Questions about sideway

What does sideway mean?

sideway means "with one side forward or to the front". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sideway?

sideway has 3 syllables and divides as si-de-way under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for sideway?

Close synonyms include sideways, sidewise, sideways, sidewise, sideways. 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 sideway a common word?

sideway is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.