Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

whiffet

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: whif-fet
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A little or faint whiff or puff.

Example Sentences

"Outside the asylum gates a brass band huffed and thumped with brazen sneezes, silver whiffets, thundering sonorities and a detonating drum, the descant hitched together by a fat woman in a Tyrolese hat and the Erlkönig's longcoat that flocked upon her hips as she squeezed and pulled a Polish accordion as big as a sheep, dipping her knees on the saltarelli and rolling her eyes in a clown's gloat."

Etymology

From whiff + -et.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: whiff

Inflected Forms

whiffets (plural)

Questions

What does whiffet mean?: A little or faint whiff or puff.
Where does whiffet come from?: From whiff + -et.

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