flyleaf
/ˈflaɪˌlif/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.93 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A blank leaf at the front or back of a book.
noun
A blank leaf at the front or back of a book.
Example Sentences
- "The flyleaf of Alice Walker's The Color Purple calls the book "honest, poignant, laughing, defiant...a story about heroic lives, love, and the nature of god.... It breaks new ground in fiction with its portrayal of women.""
- "The scribbles on the margins, the occasional date on the flyleaf, the faded bus ticket marking a page for a reason today mysterious, all try to remind me of who I was then."
- "Holonym: endpaper"
Etymology
Etymology tree English fly Proto-Indo-European *lewbʰ-der.? Proto-Germanic *laubą Proto-West Germanic *laub Old English lēaf Middle English lef English leaf English flyleaf From fly + leaf.