Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

beardlet

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: beardlet
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

1

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A little beard.

Example Sentences

"In the present day […] there does appear also a lurking desire amongst a portion of our fellow-men for the revival of the beard, but, fearful of the aroused voice of the country, they seem tremulously to adopt―the beardlet―or the imperial, as it is magnificently termed."
"the firm slight lips between the military moustache and beardlet of that pointed face"
"Golden hair courses down his belly. It hangs in little beardlets from under each pap and fizzes out from under his arms."

Etymology

From beard + -let.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: beard

Inflected Forms

beardlets (plural)

Derived Forms

beardletted

Questions

What does beardlet mean?: A little beard.
Where does beardlet come from?: From beard + -let.

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