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alongside

/əˌlɔŋˈsaɪd/adverb, preposition

alongside is spelled A-L-O-N-G-S-I-D-E: 9 letters and 3 syllables. It appears 28 times per million words in written English, the 3,288th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adverb, alongside means “Along the side; by the side; side by side; abreast” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in alongside?

Letters9: A-L-O-N-G-S-I-D-E
Syllables3 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing28 times per million words; the 3,288th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is alongside?

Alongside appears 28 times per million words in written English, the 3,288th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce alongside?

  • UK /əˌlɒŋˈsaɪd/
  • US /əˌlɔŋˈsaɪd/
  • US /əˌlɑŋˈsaɪd/

Alongside has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-alongside.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with alongside?

The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as alongside from its last stressed vowel (/aɪd/):

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

What does alongside mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adverb

  1. 1

    Along the side; by the side; side by side; abreast.

    Ahoy! Bring your boat alongside.

preposition

  1. 1

    Side by side with.

  2. 2

    Together with or at the same time.

    The nurse worked alongside the doctor.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Alongside in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchà côté côte à côte, par le travers (along the side; by the side; side by side…), à côté de, le long de, par le travers de, bord à bord avec (side by side with – see also next to)
Germanlängsseits (along the side; by the side; side by side…)
Portugueseao longo de, ao lado, lado a lado, à beira de (along the side; by the side; side by side…), junto a, juntamente com (together with or at the same time)
Spanishal costado, al lado (along the side; by the side; side by side…), yunto/juntamente/junto con (together with or at the same time)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does alongside come from?

From along + side; compare alongsides.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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