wahvey

Other forms of wahvey

plural

wahveys·

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 wahvey

What does wahvey mean?

wahvey means "a name for the God of the Old Testament as transliterated from the Hebrew consonants YHVH".

How many syllables are in wahvey?

wahvey has 2 syllables and divides as wah-vey 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 wahvey?

Close synonyms include Yahweh, YHWH, Yahwe, Yahveh, YHVH. 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 wahvey a common word?

wahvey is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.