faerie
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 9
- Words With Friends
- 9
- Letters
- 6
Definition of faerie
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(alt-of, archaic, countable, uncountable)Archaic spelling of fairy.
“All these stories are based upon the classic structure of the faerie tale and are highly enjoyable (and, yes, they end "happily ever after"). But they can provide much more than that.”
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noun
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(alt-of, archaic, countable, uncountable)Archaic spelling of fairy.
“All these stories are based upon the classic structure of the faerie tale and are highly enjoyable (and, yes, they end "happily ever after"). But they can provide much more than that.”
- (countable, uncountable)Realm of the fays, fairyland.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
A deliberately archaic spelling of fairy (attested since the 1300s in spellings like fairye, fayre), based on Old French faerie, used in 1590 by Edmund Spenser in The Faerie Queene.
Words you can make from faerie
44 playable · top: FERIAE (9 pts)
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