usual

Questions about usual

What does usual mean?

usual means "occurring or encountered or experienced or observed frequently or in accordance with regular practice or procedure". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in usual?

usual has 3 syllables: u-su-al. The stress falls on "u". In IPA it is /ˈjuʒəwəl/.

What is another word for usual?

Close synonyms include common. 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.

What is the opposite of usual?

The recorded antonyms are unusual.

Is usual a common word?

usual 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.