Leastways

Definition: Leastways

Leastways

Adverb

1. If nothing else; "at least he survived"; "they felt--at any rate Jim felt--relieved though still wary"; "the influence of economists--or at any rate of economics--is far-reaching"; (`leastwise' is informal; `leastways' is colloquial).

Date "leastways" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references)

Synonyms: Leastways

Synonyms: at any rate (adv), at least (adv), leastwise (adv). (additional references)

Crosswords: Leastways

English words defined with "leastways": At leastways. (references)

"Leastways" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 92.31% of the time. "Leastways" is used about 13 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (plural)	92.31%	12	101,599
Noun (proper)	7.69%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	13	N/A

Expression using "leastways": at leastways. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "leastways"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		të paktën (at least, leastwise), sidoqoftë (at all events, at any rate, in any case, leastwise, nevertheless, soever, whatever, whatsoever, yet). (various references)

Bulgarian		поне (at any rate, at least, leastwise), или поне. (various references)

Czech		alespoò (at least, leastwise, no less than). (various references)

German		zumindest (at least), wenigstens (at least, leastwise). (various references)

Hebrew		לפחות (at least, be reduced, become less, decrease, diminish, lessen, reduce). (various references)

Hungarian		mindenesetre (anyhow, anyway, at all events, at any rate, by all means, in any case, in any event, leastwise, whatever), legalábbis (at any rate, at least, leastwise). (various references)

Manx		er chor erbee (anywise, at all costs, at all events, at any rate, in any way so ever, nohow, noways-nowise). (various references)

Pig Latin		eastwayslay

Portuguese		de modo nenhum (little, nohow, not at all, noxious), ao menos (leastwise). (various references)

Romanian		sau mai curând, sau cel puţin. (various references)

Russian		по крайней мере (at least, at least once, leastwise). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		makar (least: at least, leastwise), barem (least: at least, leastwise). (various references)

Spanish		por lo menos (at least, leastwise). (various references)

Swedish		i varje fall (anyhow, anyway, at all events, at any rate, for some reason or other, in any case, in any event, leastwise, whatever the circumstances), åtminstone (at any rate, at least, atleast, leastwise). (various references)

Turkish		hiç olmazsa (at any rate, at least, but). (various references)

Ukranian		принаймні (at any rate, at least, leastwise). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Leastways" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Eastaways, Eastway, leastway. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-e-l-s-s-t-w-y"
	-2 letters: atlases, lysates, seaways, wayless.
	-3 letters: alates, always, awless, leasts, lyases, lysate, satays, sayest, seaway, slates, slatey, slyest, stales, steals, styles, swales, sweats, sweaty, tassel, tawses, teslas, wastes, yeasts.
	-4 letters: alate, alway, assay, asset, asyla, atlas, easts, essay, lases, lasts, least, lyase, lyses, lyssa, sales, salsa, salts, salty, satay, sates, sayst, seals, seats, setal, slate, slats, slaty, slaws, slays, slews, stale, stays, steal, stela, stews, styes, style, swale, swats, sways, sweat, taels, talas, tales, tasse, tawse, teals, tesla, twaes, wales, waste, wasts, weals, welts, wests, wetly, wyles, wytes, yawls, yeast.
	-5 letters: aals, alae, alas, ales, alts, asea, ates, away, awes, awls, ayes, east, easy, eats, etas, eyas, lase, lass, last, late, lats, laws, lays, leas, less, lest, lets, leys, lyes, lyse, sale, sals, salt, sate, saws, says, seal, seas, seat, sels, seta, sets, sews, slat, slaw, slay, slew, staw, stay, stew, stey, stye, swat, sway, tael, tala, tale, tass, taws, teal, teas, tela, tels, tews, twae, twas, tyes, waes, wale, waly, wast, wats, ways, weal, welt, west, wets, wyes, wyle, wyte, yawl, yaws, yeas, yews.
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