foolery

Other forms of foolery

plural

fooleries·

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 foolery

What does foolery mean?

foolery means "foolish or senseless behavior".

How many syllables are in foolery?

foolery has 3 syllables: foo-le-ry. The stress falls on "foo". In IPA it is /ˈfulɚi/.

What is another word for foolery?

Close synonyms include folly, tomfoolery, craziness, lunacy, indulgence. 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 foolery a common word?

foolery 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.