How to spell bye

Bye is spelled B-Y-E.

hear itbye/baɪ/nounPrefixes and work

What it means: A farewell remark.

In a sentence: "Say bye to your friends when you leave the playground."

Not to be confused with: by, buy, a different word.

Same family: byes, bye-week, first-round-bye, automatic-advance, tournament-bye. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The sports meaning of "bye" grew from an earlier sense in cricket and golf, where a "bye" referred to runs or points scored in a non-standard way. Over time, it came to mean skipping a regular turn or round, which is how we use it in tournaments today.

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