Definitions for Mayday

Mayday May·day

Spelling: [mey-dey]
IPA: /ˈmeɪˌdeɪ/

Mayday is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 41 anagrams from letters in Mayday (aadmyy).

Definitions for Mayday

noun

  1. the international radiotelephone distress signal, used by ships and aircraft.

Origin of Mayday

1925-30; French (venez) m'aider (come) help me!

Examples for Mayday

Launched in May, Mayday PAC has raised nearly $8 million in donations from more than 50,000 contributors.

Then there used to be the shooting at the butts, and the shows, and the Mayday revels, and all sorts of things.

Please, auntie says—will you try a piece of our Mayday cake?

Another serious challenge to the Zombie Theory is the absence of any Mayday call from the pilots.

After their last routine exchange with controllers the pilots never sent any Mayday or distress message.

Also like the Air France disaster, the pilots of AirAsia had no time to issue a Mayday call.

Somebody pick up our Mayday while we were cruising submerged?

So that, by "Mayday, 1747," the name was in all men's memories; and has continued ever since.

Watch what happens at the scene of a blaze when a radio call of “Mayday!”

Jarvis is put up for Cumberland, we hope he will be there by or before Mayday.

Word Value for Mayday
Scrable

15

Words with friends

14

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