fairytale

Other forms of fairytale

plural

fairytales·

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 fairytale

What does fairytale mean?

fairytale means "a story about fairies; told to amuse children". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fairytale?

fairytale has 3 syllables: fairyt-a-le. The stress falls on "fairyt". In IPA it is /ˈfɛɹiˌteɪl/.

What is another word for fairytale?

Close synonyms include fairy tale, fairy story, fairy tale, fairy story, cock-and-bull story. 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 fairytale a common word?

fairytale is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with fairytale?

14 words rhyme with fairytale. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.