Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

fern ally

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.21 in modern English

Syllables: fer-n al-ly
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of a diverse group of seedless vascular plants that disperse by shedding spores to initiate an alternation of generations, but are not true ferns.

Inflected Forms

fern allies (plural) fernally (alternative, India)

Questions

What does fern ally mean?: Any of a diverse group of seedless vascular plants that disperse by shedding spores to initiate an alternation of generations, but are not true ferns.

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