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say it: gray
grey is a noun, adjective and verb meaning "United States writer of western adventure novels (1875-1939)". It carries 13 recorded senses.
Queen of England for nine days in 1553; she was quickly replaced by Mary Tudor and beheaded for treason (1537-1554)
Englishman who as Prime Minister implemented social reforms including the abolition of slavery throughout the British Empire (1764-1845)
any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are grey
“the Confederate army was a vast grey”
a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black
horse of a light gray or whitish color
of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black
“the little grey cells”
“gray flannel suit”
“a man with greyish hair”
showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair
“whose beard with age is hoar”
“nodded his hoary head”
intermediate in character or position
“a grey area between clearly legal and strictly illegal”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for grey come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.