Word check
Is Anyways a Word?
Anyways appears in the word list Wordton searches, ENABLE plus a curated modern supplement, and scores 16 points in tile games.
Yes, it plays
tile score 16
used to indicate that a statement explains or supports a previous statement
How to use it
Anyways is old, going back to Middle English, and it is not a modern corruption of anyway despite being treated as one. It is firmly informal in current usage and functions mostly as a conversational pivot, the word you use to change the subject. In writing, anyway does the same work without the register attached. Reserve anyways for dialogue and speech, where it sounds like a person rather than a document. The s is not a plural. It is an old adverbial ending, the same one that survives in sideways, always and towards, which is part of why the word is older than its reputation.
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