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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

  1. any period of seven consecutive days

    "it rained for a week"

    Same sense: hebdomad

  2. hours or days of work in a calendar week

    "they worked a 40-hour week"

    Same sense: workweek

  3. 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

All synonyms of week, sense by sense

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

All 52 words that rhyme with week

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.