fictiony
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The taint of being 'fictiony' is, above all, to be avoided." *** Harper & Brothers, 49 East 33rd Street, New York, N. Y., and[…]"
- "Gabriel Tolliver is "fictiony," and too much sweetening is sprinkled into the tale […]"
- "... scales in each chapter will help you navigate between the bits you can cite when writing your own histories, and the fictiony sparkles enlivening those bits. The fictiony sparkles are happening in the time of the room in which the[…]"
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-né- Proto-Indo-European *dʰinéǵʰti Proto-Italic *θingō Proto-Italic *fingōder. Latin fingō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin fictiōder. Old French ficcionbor. Middle English ficcioun English fiction Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English fictiony From fiction + -y.
Usage
Inflected Forms
more fictiony (comparative)
most fictiony (superlative)