willy nilly
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.55 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
Example Sentences
- "Whenever I see a long handsome neck, willy nilly, the thought will come uppermost—What a capital neck for carving! Those cursed executions! One can't rid one's mind of them."
- "And, while he sleeps, the indwelling Compassion preserves him, willy nilly, from the suicide which, in his waking hours, he has tried so frantically hard to commit."
Inflected Forms
more willy nilly (comparative)
most willy nilly (superlative)