helly
/ˈhɛ.li/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.10 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "These monster-swarms his Holiness and his helly crew have scraped and raked together out of old doting historiographers, wizardising augurs, imposturing soothsayers, dreaming poets, chimerical conceiters, and coiners of fables, […]."
- "Then wavered all the rebel rings, And of a sudden, ere a single blow Was struck, precipitous they shrieking fled, And sought the portals of their Helly home."
Etymology
From Middle English helly, hellic, from Old English hellīċ (“of hell, hellish, infernal”), equivalent to hell + -y.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: helly, hellīċ
Usage
Inflected Forms
more helly (comparative)
most helly (superlative)
Hellys (plural)