topsy-turvey
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.91 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
verb
Example Sentences
- "[...] Mrs. Sykes said, ‘her man was the wust she ever knowed when he got topsy-turveyed.’ And as now, he began to get topsy-turveyed pretty regularly before he had finished his daily business with the retiring host of the Holly Bush, there was not much peace at home."
- "[M]y literary life was rather topsy-turveyed by a couple of untoward accidents last year, and a prostrating attack of influenza, and bronchitis subsequently, for the cure of which I am indebted to the climate of Portugal, [...]"
Inflected Forms
more topsy-turvey (comparative)
most topsy-turvey (superlative)
topsy-turveys (present, singular)
topsy-turveying (participle, present)
topsy-turveyed (participle, past)
topsy-turveyed (past)