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frighty

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
frighty
IPA
17
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Afraid.

Obsolete

Etymology

from Middle English frighti, frighty, friȝti, equivalent to fright + -y.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

frightier (comparative) more frighty (comparative) frightiest (superlative) most frighty (superlative)

Derived Forms

frightily

Questions

What does frighty mean?
Afraid.
Where does frighty come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

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