works

Other forms of works

plural

workses·

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 works

What does works mean?

works means "buildings for carrying on industrial labor". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in works?

works has 1 syllable: works. In IPA it is /ˈwɝks/.

What is another word for works?

Close synonyms include plant, industrial plant, whole shebang, whole kit and caboodle, kit and caboodle. 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 works a common word?

works 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 works?

2 words rhyme with works. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.