Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

wing-footed

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.28 in modern English

Syllables: wing--foot-ed
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Having wings on the feet; very fast.

Example Sentences

"And his wingfooted coursers him did beare / So fast away that, ere his readie speare / He could advance, he farre was gone and past […]."
"He only can create the greatest imaginable beauty who has endured all imaginable pangs, for only when we have seen and foreseen what we dread shall we be rewarded by that dazzling, unforeseen, wing-footed wanderer."
"In due time she gave birth to Autolycus, / A son of Mercury, wing-footed, as if born / With all his father's cleverness and speed, / He made white look like black and black like white."

Inflected Forms

more wing-footed (comparative) most wing-footed (superlative) wingfooted (alternative)

Questions

What does wing-footed mean?: Having wings on the feet; very fast.

How to pronounce wing-footed

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