Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

vowelly

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: vow-elly
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Characteristic of, or containing, vowels.

Example Sentences

"Syl was really big into Third World lit, Stella Jr. said, mentioning a couple of postcolonial writers from the Indian subcontinent with whom I was familiar only as vowelly names on book spines."

Etymology

From vowel + -y.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: vowel

Inflected Forms

more vowelly (comparative) most vowelly (superlative)

Questions

What does vowelly mean?: Characteristic of, or containing, vowels.
Where does vowelly come from?: From vowel + -y.

How to pronounce vowelly

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