colliery
/ˈkɑl.jɚ.ɪ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.95 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Sir Geoffrey, Clifford's father, was intensely ridiculous, chopping down his trees, and weeding men out of his colliery to shove them into the war [...] From the rather dismal rooms at Wragby she heard the rattle-rattle of the screens at the pit, the puff of the winding-engine, the clink-clink of shunting trucks, and the hoarse little whistle of the colliery locomotives."
- "From the hillock a score of red paths diverged as black ones do from a colliery, one of them leading to the homestead itself […]"
Etymology
From collier + -y.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈkɑl.jɚ.ɪ/
- British English: /ˈkɒl.jə.ɹi/