fareway
/ˈfɛɹˌweɪ/noun
fareway is a noun meaning “A road, route, or passage used for travelling over or through” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-A-R-E-W-A-Y and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 81 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fareway is fareways.
What does fareway mean?
noun
- 1
A road, route, or passage used for travelling over or through.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce fareway?
- US /ˈfɛɹˌweɪ/
- UK /ˈfɛəweɪ/
Fareway has 2 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of fareway
- fareways plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fareway?
Fareway appears about once in every 81 million words in written English, the 286,585th 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).
Where does fareway come from?
From Middle English farewaye, fairway, fare-waye, from Old English færweġ (“a cartroad”), from Proto-West Germanic *faraweg, *faruweg (“fareway”), equivalent to fare (“travel”) + way. Cognate with West Frisian farwei (“waterway”), Dutch vaarweg (“waterway”), Middle Low German vārwech, vaerwech (“fareway”), German Fahrweg (“fareway”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).