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Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

featous

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
featous
IPA
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Neat, pretty.

Obsolete

adj

Well made; elegant, graceful.

Obsolete

Etymology

From Middle English fetis, from Old French fetis, faitis, from Latin factīcius. Doublet of factitious. The spelling reflects an assumption that the word was derived from feat (“dexterous, neat”) + -ous.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

more featous (comparative) most featous (superlative)

Derived Forms

featously

Questions

What does featous mean?
Neat, pretty.
Where does featous come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

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