word for word

1. 1.

   using exactly the same words

   “he repeated her remarks verbatim”

   Synonymsverbatim

Questions about word for word

What does word for word mean?

word for word means "using exactly the same words".

What is another word for word for word?

Close synonyms include verbatim. 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 word for word a common word?

word for word 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.