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Definition: Drizzly |
DrizzlyAdjective1. Wet with light rain; "a sad drizzly day"; "a wet drippy day". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "drizzly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
Synonym: DrizzlySynonym: drippy (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Drizzly |
| English words defined with "drizzly": drippy. (references) |
| "Drizzly" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 53.85% of the time. "Drizzly" is used about 13 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 53.85% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Adverb (general) | 46.15% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 13 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "drizzly": drizzly-day. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "drizzly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 下毛毛雨 (Drizzled, Drizzling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | nieselnde. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | με ψιλόβροχο. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szitáló (garbler, sifter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | joanlee, dramaneagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | izzlydray моросящий. (various references) ceòbanach (misty). (various references) rominja, koji sipi. (various references) ซึ่งตกปรอยๆ. (various references) serpiştiren, çiseleyen. (various references) có mưa phùn, có mưa bụi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Drizzly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dizzly, driz, Drizley, Rizzla. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "drizzly" (pronounced dri"zlē) |
| 5 | -r i" z l ē | grisly, grizzly. |
| 3 | -z l ē | measly, Paisley, unwisely, wisely. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-i-l-r-y-z-z" | |
-2 letters: dizzy, drily. | |
-3 letters: dirl, idly, idyl, yird. | |
-4 letters: dry, lid, rid, yid. | |
-5 letters: id, li. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-i-l-r-y-z-z" | |
+2 letters: blizzardy. | |
+3 letters: blizzardly. | |
+4 letters: drizzlingly. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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