scary
/ˈskɛə.ɹi/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.37 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The tiger's jaws were scary."
- "She was hiding behind her pillow during the scary parts of the film."
- "He watched Conjuring but it was too scary for him."
- "Well, we swarmed along down the river road, just carrying on like wildcats; and to make it more scary the sky was darking up, and the lightning beginning to wink and flitter, and the wind to shiver amongst the leaves."
- "“[…] How scary it is to know that everyone I love depends on me! I’m afraid I’ll do something wrong.”"
- "Age notwithstanding, none of these men seem interested in sailing to Byzantium anyway: Justine’s got them all on the last stage to someplace wilder and scarier, where Yeats’s “monuments of unaging intellect” are thoroughly beside the point."
Etymology
Etymology tree English scare Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English scary From scare + -y.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈskɛə.ɹi/
- British English: /ˈskɛə.ɹi/
Usage
- Informal
- American usage
- Colloquial