Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

purrfectly

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: purr-fect-ly
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

Perfectly, in contexts relating to cats.

Colloquial; Humorous

adv

Pronunciation spelling of perfectly.

Example Sentences

"Hello Kitty Hello Everything! Abrams Purrfectly pretty collectibles"
"There was a purrfectly good bowl of food back at the house."
"Cats and basketball may not seem like a good mix, but for one Chicago-area man, they go together, um, purr'''fectly."
"An Amurrcan Girl. Father, see up there; there’s Byron. Did you erver see such a purrfectly beautiful face?"
"We have heard of a Writer to the Signet who spoke such exceedingly high English that a professional brother bluntly pronounced his conversation to be “purrfectly unintelligible.”"
"“We are purrfectly sober,” said Murphy, as if answering an accusation."

Etymology

From perfectly with the first syllable altered to purr. Compare purrfect.

Usage

Inflected Forms

more purrfectly (comparative) most purrfectly (superlative)

Questions

What does purrfectly mean?: Perfectly, in contexts relating to cats.
Where does purrfectly come from?: From perfectly with the first syllable altered to purr. Compare purrfect.

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