raillery

Questions about raillery

What does raillery mean?

raillery means "light teasing repartee".

How many syllables are in raillery?

raillery has 3 syllables and divides as rail-le-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 raillery?

Close synonyms include banter, give-and-take, backchat. 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 raillery a common word?

raillery 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.