sky

Other forms of sky

plural

skies·

past tense

skied·

present participle

skying·

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 sky

What does sky mean?

sky means "the atmosphere and outer space as viewed from the earth". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sky?

sky has 1 syllable: sky. In IPA it is /ˈskaɪ/.

What is another word for sky?

Close synonyms include flip, toss, pitch. 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 sky a common word?

sky 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.