Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

beadful

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: bead-ful
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Obsolete

adj

Full of or having beads; beaded

noun

The amount contained in a bead

Example Sentences

"Choice lay between the red and green pillow with the beadwork dog, and the thinner patchwork one with written names scrawling over it; and the beadful dog won out."
"This "beadful" of fluid caused eventual peeling of the paint."

Etymology

From Middle English bedeful, equivalent to bead (“prayer", later also "bead”) + -ful.

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: bedeful
Suffix: bead

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

more beadful (comparative) most beadful (superlative) beadfuls (plural)

Questions

What does beadful mean?: Prayerful.
Where does beadful come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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