fele
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.37 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
much; many.
Obsolete
pron
many (of).
Obsolete
Example Sentences
- "For they bring in the substance of the Beere / That they drinken feele too good chepe, not dere."
- "This cruel monstre, […] Infect with fell venoum;"
- "So fele shippes this yere there ware / That moch losse for vnfreyght they bare. So fele ships this year there were / that much loss for unfreight they bore."
Etymology
From Middle English fele, from Old English feola, fela (“much, many, very”), from Proto-West Germanic *felu, from Proto-Germanic *felu (“very, much”), from Proto-Indo-European *pélh₁u (“many”). Cognate with Scots fele (“many, much, great”), Dutch veel (“much, many”), German viel (“much, many”), Latin plūs (“more”), Ancient Greek πολύς (polús, “many”). Related to full, few.
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the felest