faery

Other forms of faery

plural

faeries·

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 faery

What does faery mean?

faery means "a small being, human in form, playful and having magical powers". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in faery?

faery has 3 syllables: fa-e-ry. The stress falls on "fa".

What is another word for faery?

Close synonyms include fairy, faerie, fay, sprite, fairyland. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is faery a common word?

faery 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.