frippery

Questions about frippery

What does frippery mean?

frippery means "something of little value or significance".

How many syllables are in frippery?

frippery has 3 syllables and divides as frip-pe-ry under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for frippery?

Close synonyms include bagatelle, fluff, frivolity. 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 frippery a common word?

frippery 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.