weighs
USWAYZ/weɪz/
- 1Third-person singular simple present of weigh.
The newborn weighs just over seven pounds.
He weighs each option carefully before making a decision.
Note
Behind this one spelling sit two different grammars. In the bag weighs ten pounds, the verb is stative and the measure is not an object: it cannot be made passive, and is weighing sounds odd there. In she weighs the flour, or weighs out a portion for sale, it is an ordinary transitive verb that passivizes freely (the flour is weighed) and takes the progressive.
weighs is a form of weigh
weigh, verb: To measure how heavy an object is, typically using a scale or balance. Full entry
- Spelling
- weigh → weighs: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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