starey
/ˈstɛɚ.i/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Characterized by staring.
Example Sentences
- "[…] skin white as buttermilk and maybe smelling a little like it, and big blue starey eyes, starey to some extent even when she was not distributed over a vaulting horse."
Etymology
From stare + -y.
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈstɛɚ.i/
- British English: /ˈstɛə.ɹi/