About The Word “Sometimes”

Everything you wanted to know about the word “sometimes”, including spelling, parts of speech, “sometimes” meaning and origins, anagrams, rhyming words, encodings, crossword clues and much more!

How to spell “sometimes”

Sometimes is spelled s-o-m-e-t-i-m-e-s and has 9 letters.


How to pronounce “sometimes”

IPA pronunciation: /ˈsʌmˌtaɪmz/

Phonetic pronunciation: suht-ty-mz


How many vowels and consonants in “sometimes”

The word “sometimes” has 5 consonants and 4 vowels.


How many syllables in “sometimes”?

There are 2 syllables in the word “sometimes”.


What type of word is “sometimes”?

The word "sometimes" can be a adverb and adjective.

Meaning of the word “sometimes”

'Sometimes' is an adverb that refers to the occurrence of an event or action at certain instances or intervals, rather than consistently or constantly. It indicates that something happens occasionally or periodically, but not all the time.

Origin of the word “sometimes”

The word 'sometimes' has its origins in the Middle English period, derived from the Old English term 'sumtīma', which is a compound of 'sum' (some) and 'tīma' (time), both of which have Germanic roots.
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Synonyms for “sometimes”

Other words for “sometimes” include occasionally, at times, now and then, every so often, periodically, on occasion, from time to time, infrequently, sporadically.

Common misspellings of “sometimes”

Sumetimes, sumtimes

Similar words to “sometimes”

Sometime, stimes

Scrambled words derived from “sometimes”

Sieomemst, semsimteo, ssemioetm, omesemsit, tiemessmo, mtsiesemo, tseoemmis, mimtsseeo, esseotmim, eismsomte, stieesmom, tesomiesm, ssotmieme, eemtmsios, memissteo, imesmtseo, imstsoeme, meoissmet, siemtmeso, esmitmoes, esoteismm, eetsommsi, tomiemess, ssteomiem, oeimstmes

Crossword clues for “sometimes”

Erratically met on occasions (9).

Fun facts about the word “sometimes”

The word “sometimes” has a Scrabble score of 13 and reads semitemos in reverse.


Phonetic spelling of “sometimes”

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“sometimes” spelled in Morse code

... --- -- . - .. -- . ... (dot dot dot dash dash dash dash dash dot dash dot dot dash dash dot dot dot dot).

Morse code is a method used in telecommunication to encode text characters as sequences of two different signal durations, called dots and dashes, or dits and dahs. It was developed in the 1830s and 1840s by Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail for their new invention, the telegraph, which required a simple way to transmit text messages across long distances.

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ASCII spelling of “sometimes”

Lowercase word: 115 111 109 101 116 105 109 101 115

Uppercase word: 83 79 77 69 84 73 77 69 83

ASCII, which stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character encoding standard used by computers and electronic devices to understand and represent text.

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Binary spelling of “sometimes”

Lowercase word: 1110011 1101111 1101101 1100101 1110100 1101001 1101101 1100101 1110011

Uppercase word: 1010011 1001111 1001101 1000101 1010100 1001001 1001101 1000101 1010011

Binary encoding is a system that computers and digital devices use to represent and process information. It's based on binary numbers, which are composed only of zeros and ones, known as bits.

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Hexadecimal value of “sometimes”

Lowercase hexadecimal word: 0x73 0x6F 0x6D 0x65 0x74 0x69 0x6D 0x65 0x73

Uppercase hexadecimal word: 0x53 0x4F 0x4D 0x45 0x54 0x49 0x4D 0x45 0x53

Hexadecimal is a number system commonly used in computing as a human-friendly way of representing binary data. Unlike the decimal system, which is base 10 and uses digits from 0 to 9, the hexadecimal system is base 16, using digits from 0 to 9 and letters from A to F to represent the values 10 to 15.

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Decimal spelling of “sometimes”

Lowercase: 115 111 109 101 116 105 109 101 115

Upprcase: 83 79 77 69 84 73 77 69 83

The decimal system, also known as base-10, is the numerical system most commonly used by people in everyday life. It's called "base-10" because it uses ten digits: 0 through 9. Each position in a decimal number represents a power of 10.

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Octal value of “sometimes”

Lowercase: 163 157 155 145 164 151 155 145 163

Upprcase: 123 117 115 105 124 111 115 105 123

Octal is a base-8 number system used in digital computing. Unlike the decimal system which uses ten digits (0-9), and the binary system which uses two (0 and 1), the octal system uses eight digits: 0 through 7. Each position in an octal number represents a power of 8.

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