Week definition
Week is a noun meaning "any period of seven consecutive days." It has 3 meanings, listed below with example sentences.
- Part of speech
- noun
- Syllables
- 1
- Letters
- 4
- How common
- Everyday word
Week as a noun
any period of seven consecutive days
"it rained for a week"
Same sense: hebdomad
hours or days of work in a calendar week
"they worked a 40-hour week"
Same sense: workweek
a period of seven consecutive days (usually reckoned to be from Sunday to Saturday, or from Monday to Sunday)
Same sense: calendar week
Synonyms and antonyms
- hebdomad
- workweek
- calendar week
How to say week
Week has 1 syllable and rhymes with speak. Syllable counts and rhymes come from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary.
Words that rhyme with week
- speak
- unique
- weak
- seek
- peak
- greek
- technique
- creek
- leak
- freak
- streak
- sneak
WEEK in word games
- Scrabble
- 11
- Words With Friends
- 11
- Anagrams
- 0
Is WEEK a valid Scrabble word? Yes, it is in the ENABLE list most word games use. Check WEEK in the word checker, or unscramble WEEK to see the shorter words in its letters.
Definitions and examples from Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0). Browse more words in the dictionary.