Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

pily

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: pi-ly
IPA

9

Scrabble Score

4

Letters

2

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Like pile or wool.

adj

Marked by many narrow piles (wedges).

Example Sentences

"the thick, fine, short undercoat, or pily fur"
"bend pily, chief pily"
"Milles very improperly uses the term for per pale indented throughout, or barry pily."
"Barry pily of eight or and gu."
"(A) A chief pily. (B) Similar, but made to form a bordure with 2 teeth in chief. (C) 3 piles - - - (partly underground). (D) Argent 3 piles checky and on a chief checky 3 annulets or. (E) On a chief pily 3 annulets."

Etymology

From pile + -y.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: pile

Inflected Forms

more pily (comparative) most pily (superlative)

Questions

What does pily mean?: Like pile or wool.
Where does pily come from?: From pile + -y.

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