drey

1. 1.

   the nest of a squirrel

   Broadernest

Other forms of drey

plural

dreys·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about drey

What does drey mean?

drey means "the nest of a squirrel".

How many syllables are in drey?

drey has 1 syllable: drey. In IPA it is /ˈdɹeɪ/.

Is drey a common word?

drey is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.