week

Other forms of week

plural

weeks·

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 week

What does week mean?

week means "any period of seven consecutive days". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in week?

week has 1 syllable: week. In IPA it is /ˈwik/.

What is another word for week?

Close synonyms include hebdomad, workweek, calendar week. 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 week a common word?

week 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 week?

1 word rhymes with week. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.