Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cherty

/ˈt͡ʃɜɹti/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.14 in modern English

Syllables: cher-ty
IPA: /ˈt͡ʃɜɹti/

14

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Containing chert.

Example Sentences

"Rudely shaped, of hard cherty rock, flat on the inner face, convex on the back. 2759."
"Its mineralogical constitution is not simple; in some parts the rock is of a cherty, in others of a feldspathic nature, including thin veins of serpentine."
"It is represented by a phosphate-dolostone sequence in Wengan, where it is 33 to 55 m thick and consists mainly of dark phosphate, cherty phosphate, chert, and gray dolomite."

Etymology

From chert + -y.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: chert

Inflected Forms

chertier (comparative) chertiest (superlative)

Derived Forms

chertiness

Rhymes With

dirty poverty thirty flirty qwerty purty hurty shirty alberty skirty

Questions

How do you pronounce cherty?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈt͡ʃɜɹti/.
What does cherty mean?: Containing chert.
Where does cherty come from?: From chert + -y.

How to pronounce cherty

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