Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

scye

/saɪ/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: scye
IPA: /saɪ/

9

Scrabble Score

4

Letters

1

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An armhole (or, occasionally, a leghole) in tailoring and dressmaking.

Example Sentences

"on the seat lay folded a pair of blue cotton pants creased at the groin, their short fly zippered open, and over them a white underbrief, the sinus of its pouch humped between elliptical scyes."

Etymology

Borrowed from Scots sey (“armhole, cut of beef”), from Middle Scots say, possibly from Old Norse segi, sigi (“chunk, bite”), from Proto-Germanic *segô, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”).

Origin

Source language: Old Norse

Word Breakdown

Root: say, segi, *segô, *sek-

Inflected Forms

scyes (plural)

Homonyms

sigh psi xi sai Si Sy Cy sie

Rhymes With

by my why high on high try guy buy little guy why oh why july die

Questions

How do you pronounce scye?: The recorded pronunciation is /saɪ/.
What does scye mean?: An armhole (or, occasionally, a leghole) in tailoring and dressmaking.
Where does scye come from?: It is traced to Old Norse.

How to pronounce scye

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