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Definition: Whimsical |
WhimsicalAdjective1. Determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason; "a capricious refusal"; "authoritarian rulers are frequently capricious"; "the victim of whimsical persecutions". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "whimsical" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
Note: Whimsical \Whim"si*cal\, adjective. [From Whimsey.]. (references) |
Synonyms: WhimsicalSynonyms: capricious (adj), impulsive (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Absence of Motive | Adjective: without rhyme or reason; aimless, capricious, whimsical; (chance). |
Caprice | Adjective: capricious; erratic, eccentric, fitful, hysterical; full of whims; Noun: maggoty; inconsistent, fanciful, fantastic, whimsical, crotchety, kinky, particular, humorsome, freakish, skittish, wanton, wayward; contrary; captious; arbitrary; unconformable; penny wise and pound foolish; fickle; (irresolute); frivolous, sleeveless, giddy, volatile. |
Imagination | Fabulous, legendary; mythical, mythic, mythological; chimerical; imaginary, visionary; notional; fancy, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical; whimsical; fairy, fairy-like; gestic. |
Ridiculousness | Adjective: ridiculous, ludicrous; comical; droll, funny, laughable, pour rire, grotesque, farcical, odd; whimsical, whimsical as a dancing bear; fanciful, fantastic, queer, rum, quizzical, quaint, bizarre; screaming; eccentric; (unconformable); strange, outlandish, out of the way, baroque, weird; awkward; (ugly). |
Wit | Adjective: witty, attic; quick-witted, nimble-witted; smart; jocular, jocose, humorous; facetious, waggish, whimsical; kidding, joking, puckish; playful; merry and wise; pleasant, sprightly, light, spirituel, sparkling, epigrammatic, full of point, ben trovato; comic. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Whimsical |
| English words defined with "whimsical": capricious, Crack-brained ♦ droll ♦ Eccentric strap ♦ Fancymonger ♦ Grotesgue ♦ Hobbyhorsical, Humorsome ♦ impulsive ♦ notion ♦ Vagarious ♦ whim, Whimmy, whimsey, Whimsicalness, whimsy, Whimwham. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "whimsical": Donkey ♦ Isabelle ♦ MAGGOTTY ♦ RATTLE-PATE. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "whimsical": Fancymonger. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Death is whimsical today (Léon; writing credit: Luc Besson) We hope you found it entertaining, whimsical, and yet relevant, with an underlined revisionist conceit that belie the film's emotional attachments to the subject matter (Wayne's World; writing credit: Mike Myers, Bonnie Turner, Terry Turner) Whumsical is more Whimsical than Whamsical (The Gay Divorcee; writing credit: J. Hartley Manners; Dwight Taylor) My one and only noble point may be found in my bodily appendage, whom I will consult democratically as he is rather whimsical. (Marquis; writing credit: Roland Topor; Henri Xhonneux) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Whimsical World of Oz (1985) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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 | Whimsical view of the freedom and beauty of the sea. In: "The Voyage of H. M. S. CHALLENGER A Summary....", Part I, p. xxxv. Library Call Number Q115.C4 1880 summary pt. 1. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Frontispiece to : "Natural History of the European Seas" by Edward Forbes ( posthumously) and edited by Robert Godwin-Austen. Forbes' initials are in the lower right of this whimsical cartoon depicting deep sea dredging for marine fauna. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
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| "Lava 2" by Cerys Jones Commentary: "The intention with these was to suggest a hot atmosphere - the colour just yelled it at me at a whimsical moment." | "Frog Sign" by Paige Foster Commentary: "A whimsical sign along the road in rural Missouri." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
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 | Whimsical electric piano. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | All this was said in a tone of proud humility, a desperate and resolute tone, which gave an indescribably whimsical grandeur to this oddly honest man. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | The manufacturers have learned that this taste is merely whimsical. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Whimsical" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Whimsical" is used about 86 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) | 100% | 86 | 35,638 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "whimsical"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | tekanjoz (capricious, faddish, faddy, freakish, temperamental, wanton, wayward), kureshtar (curious, inquiring, inquisitive, inquisitorial, noser, nosey, nosy, pry, staring), kapriçioz (capricious, crotchety, faddish, faddy, fanciful, tricksy, vagarious), i çuditshëm (bizarre, cranky, curious, dark, eccentric, electric, erratic, extraordinary, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, frabjous, freak, freakish, funny, grotesque, kinky, odd, oddish, off beat, outlandish, peculiar, pixilated, puzzling, quaint, queer, quizzical, rummy, strange, surprising, uncanny, unco, unnatural, unusual, viewy, way out, weird). (various references) | |
Arabic | متقلب (capricious, changeable, changeful, choppy, fickle, flighty, fluctuant, fluky, freakish, incalculable, inconsistent, inconstant, jumpy, mercurial, mobile, moody, mutable, reversible, rough and tumble, shaky, skittish, temperamental, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, variable, versatile, volatile, wavering, wayward, weather vane, yeasty), نزوي (capricious), قلب (alter, bring down, capricious, capsize, center, centre, change, convert, core, essence, flip, heart, inversion, invert, inverting, leaf, middle, overthrow, overturn, reversal, reverse, tip, topple, transform, transformation, turn, turn about, turn around, turn inside down, turn over, turn up, upset, upturn), حول (ability, about, alien, around, be cross eyed, bleach, capricious, commit, concerning, deed, deliver, deter, divert, encode, hand down, hand over, make, metamorphose, power, process, redress, refer, relocate, round, stop, switch, transfer, transmute, transpose, turn, withdraw, work, year), غريب الأطوار (capricious, crackpot, cranky, curious, eccentric, nutty, odd, off beat, peculiar, queer, weird, weirdo), غريب (absurd, alien, anomalous, antic, bizarre, eerie, eery, exotic, extraneous, fanciful, foreign, freakish, funny, grotesque, intruder, ludicrous, new, odd, outlandish, outsider, peculiar, potty, quaint, queer, rum, senseless, singular, strange, stranger, tall, unaccustomed, uncanny, uncouth, unearthly, unfamiliar, unnatural). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | странен (bizarre, comic, comical, fantastic, fantastical, freakish, funny, grotesque, novel, odd, outlandish, peculiar, quaint, queer, remarkable, rum, rummy, screwy, singular, strange, uncanny, unco, unheard of, weird), своеобразен (extravagant), снизходителен (indulgent, lenient, merciful, patronizing, permissive, sparing), капризен (capricious, erratic, faddish, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, fastidious, fickle, fractious, freakish, freaky, fretful, ill, inconstant, maggoty, particular, petulant, skittish, tricksy, vagarious, vagrant, wayward), непостоянен (astatic, capricious, casual, changeable, changeful, discontinuous, erratic, fickle, fluctuating, fluid, impermanent, inconstant, irregular, liquid, lubricous, mobile, mutable, non-persistent, seesaw, sporadic, streaky, uncertain, unequable, uneven, unreliable, unstable, unsteady, vagarious, variable, variant, volatile, wayward, yo-yo), леко насмешлив. (various references) | |
Chinese | 詼 (humorous), 异想天开 (Whim). (various references) | |
Czech | rozmarný (capricious, vagarious), náladový (capricious, crotchety, erratic, freakish, Moody, temperamental), enigmatický (inscrutable). (various references) | |
Farsi | وسواسی (Meticulous, Morose, Queasy, Scrupulous), غریب (Curious, Eccentric, Extravagant, Immigrant, Lonely, Nostalgic, Romantic, Singular, Stranger, Uncanny, Unco, Unheard, Unmoral, Unusual, Weird, Wonder), خیالباف (Woolgatherer), دهن بین , بوالهوس (Capricious). (various references) | |
Finnish | oikullinen (capricious), oikukas (capricious). (various references) | |
French | capricieux. (various references) | |
German | wunderlich (bizarre, cranky, fantastic, fantastical, grotesque, odd, peculiar, quaint, strange, whimsically, wondrous). (various references) | |
Greek | ιδιότροποσ (capricious, cranky, crotchety, faddy, fastidious, flighty, maggoty, pernickety, quirky, wanton, wayward), ιδιότροπος (faddy, freakish, temperamental), φαντασιώδησ (fanciful, imaginary, visionary), φαντασιόπληκτοσ (fanciful), άστατος (changeable, fitful, inconstant, unsettled). (various references) | |
Hebrew | קפריסי (capricious, flighty, wanton, wayward, whimsy), גחמני (capricious, incendiary). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szeszélyes (be capricious, capricious, changeful, erratic, fanciful, fickle, fitful, freakish, have a little finger ache, have moods, kinky, maggoty, mercurial, moody, peevish, petulant, skittish, wanton), hóbortos (capricious, crack-brained, crotchety, eccentric, extravagant, faddist, faddy, fanciful, fantastic, have bats in the belfry, pixilated, queer in the head, vagarious, whacky). (various references) | |
Italian | stravagante (crackpot, eccentric, extravagant, fancy, odd, outre, queer), lunatico (lunar, lunatic, Moody, temperamental), estroso (fanciful, peculiar, strange), capriccioso (capricious, fanciful, flighty, freakish, maggoty, skittish, temperamental, wayward, wilful, willful), bizzaro. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 斑気 (capricious, moody), 取り留めの無い (incoherent, rambling, vague, wandering), 取り留めのない (incoherent, rambling, vague, wandering), 取り止めの無い (incoherent, rambling, vague, wandering), 取り止めのない (incoherent, rambling, vague, wandering). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | むらき (capricious, moody), とりとめのない (incoherent, rambling, vague, wandering). (various references) | |
Manx | teaymagh (capricious, fickle, fitful, freakish, humoursome, moody, notional, spasmodic, wavering), splennagh (splenetic). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | imsicalwhay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | fantasia (caprice, chimera, crotchet, doss, dream, fable, fairytale, fancy, fantasia, fantasy, freak, idea, illusion, imagination, invention, legend, maggot, moonshine, phantasm, phantasy, reverie, unreality, vagary, vapor, vapour, whim), fantástico (chimerical, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, of fantasy, smashing, stupendous, unreal), extravagante (chappy, erratic, extravagant, fancy, flamboyant, freakish, garish, rampant, thriftless, ultra), excêntrico (barmy, bizarre, cam, capricious, cranky, crotcheteer, crotchety, eccentric, eccentrical, erratic, kinky, lunatic, madcap, odd, oddball, peculiar, potty, quaint, queer, quizzical, strange, suburban, tappet, wacky, weird, wiper, wobbler), caprichoso (arbitrary, cantankerous, caprice, capricious, crotchety, difficult, extravagant, faddist, fanciful, fitful, freakish, kittle, maggoty, notional, peevish, skittish, temperamental, tidy, viewy, wayward, whim), capricho (caprice, crank, craze, crotchet, fad, freak, gambade, humor, humour, maggot, vagary, whim, whimsy), bizarro (antic, bizarre, freakish, kinky, odd, quaint, weird). (various references) | |
Romanian | sucit (distorted, twisted, uncommon, unnatural, unusual, wrongheaded, wry), straniu (awesome, bizarre, curiously, eerie, eery, funny, novel, odd, out of the way, particular, peculiar, queer, rum, singular, strange, strangely, uncanny, uncouth, unearthly, weird), fantezist (capricious, fanciful, fancy, fantastic, fantastical, invented, lunar, notionist, phantasmal, strange), fantastic (arabesque, fabled, fabulous, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, fantasticalness, freakish, romantic, tall, tremendous), cu toane (capricious, fanciful, fancy, maggoty, Moody, wayward, whimsy), ciufut (skinflint), ciudat (cranky, curious, droll, eccentric, extraordinary, extravagant, fanciful, fancy, freakish, funny, intriguing, kinky, odd, out of the way, outlandish, particular, peculiar, peculiarly, quaint, queer, rum, rummy, singular, strange, strangely, uncouth, unusual, weird), capricios (arbitrary, capricious, cranky, crotchety, difficult, fanciful, fancy, fantastic, fantastical, fickle, fitful, fractious, freakish, frolic, Froward, humoursome, peevish, perverse, vagarious, wanton, wayward, whimsy), bizar (bizarre, droll, extravagant, fancy, quaint, queer, rummy, singular, strange, strangely). (various references) | |
Russian | причудливый (bizarre, capricious, crotchety, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, freaky, quaint, quirky). (various references) | |
Scottish | Guaigean (meaning `little whimsical fellow', thick). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | kapriciozan (capricious), ćudljiv (gnomish, jerky, moody, skittish, vagarious). (various references) | |
Spanish | maravilloso (amazing, blissful, Dandy, delighted, delightsome, divine, dreamy, dressy, engaging, gorgeous, heavenly, knockout, lead, magnificent, marvellous, marvelous, rare, stunning, well done, wonderful, wondrous), fantástico (eerie, fanciful, fancy, fantastic, fantastical, lurid, neat, unrealistic, wild), caprichoso (capricious, faddish, faddy, fanciful, flighty, freak, freakish, hardheaded, headstrong, opinionated, skittish, temperamental, vagary, wanton, wayward, wilful, willful), antojadizo (fanciful, unpredictable). (various references) | |
Swedish | nyckfull (capricious, faddish, fanciful, fancy, fantastic, fantastical, fickle, flighty, freakish, skittish, uncertain, unpredictable, wayward). (various references) | |
Turkish | tuhaf (antic, bizarre, comical, cranky, curious, droll, erratic, flaky, funnily, funny, funny peculiar, laughable, odd, offbeat, peculiar, peregrine, queer, quizzical, rum, rummy, screwball, screwy, singular, splay, strange, twee, unaccustomed, uncouth, unusual, weird), maymun iştahlı (desultory, fickle, flighty, temperamental, whimsey, whimsy), kaprisli (capricious, fanciful, fey, freakish, humoursome, notional, wayward, whimsey, whimsy), garip (awkward, bizarre, codger, comical, cranky, crotchety, curious, droll, eccentric, exotic, fanciful, fancy, fantastic, fantastical, far out, freak, freakish, funny, funny peculiar, grotesque, kinky, odd, out of the way, outlandish, poor, queer, quizzical, rum, rummy, screwball, screwy, strange, weirdo), acayip fikirli (whimsey, whimsy). (various references) | |
Turkmen | ynjyk (capricious, tender). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | химерний (arabesque, artsy-craftsy, arty-crafty, baroque, chimerical, conceited, fanciful, freakish, notional), ексцентричний (bizarre, cranky, eccentric, eccentrical, fantastic, fantastical, odd, oddball, oddish, offbeat, outre, queer, wacky, whacky), примхливий (arbitrary, capricious, choice, cranky, fanciful, fractious, freak, freakish, huffish, humorous, humous, inconstant, maggoty, naughty, notional, notionate, skittish, whimsey, whimsy). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | kỳ dị (arabesque, baroque, bizarre, curious, singular, strange, uncommon, weird), hay thay đổi kỳ quái, bất thường (anomalous, rarely, unaccustomed, unwonted, vagarious). (various references) | |
Welsh | mympwyol (arbitrary, capricious). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "whimsical": whimsicalities, whimsicality, whimsically, whimsicalness, whimsicalnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Whimsical" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: whimcical, whimsicle, wimsical. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "whimsical" (pronounced wi"mzikul or hwi"mzikul) |
| 5 | -z i k u l | lackadaisical, metaphysical, musical, physical. |
| 4 | -i k u l | acoustical, alphabetical, analytical, antithetical, apolitical, archaeological, archeological, astrological, astronautical, astronomical, asymmetrical, atypical, autobiographical, bicycle, biographical, biological, biomedical, biotechnological, botanical, categorical, cervical, chronological, classical, comical, conical, critical, cubicle, cyclical, cylindrical, cynical, dermatological, diabolical, dialectical, ecclesiastical, ecological, economical, ecumenical, egotistical, electrical, electrochemical, electromechanical, elliptical, empirical, encyclical, epidemiological, eschatological, ethical, ethnical, evangelical, fanatical, galenical, geographical, geological, geometrical, geopolitical, graphical, gynecological, helical, heretical, historical, hypercritical, hypocritical, hysterical, icicle, identical, ideological, illogical, immunological, spherical, statistical, stereotypical, strategical, surgical, symmetrical, tactical, technical, technological, teleological, testicle, theatrical, theological, inimical, ironical, lexical, liturgical, logical, logistical, lyrical, magical, mathematical, mechanical, metallurgical, metaphorical, methodological, metrical, morphological, mystical, mythological, neoclassical, neurological, nonelectrical, nonpolitical, nonsensical, nonsurgical, nontechnical, ontological, optical, ornithological, paradoxical, pathological, pedagogical, periodical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, pharmacological, philosophical, phonological, physiological, popsicle, preclinical, problematical, prototypical, psychical, psychological, puritanical, rabbinical, radiological, rhetorical, sabbatical, semiclassical, semicylindrical, semitropical, serological, sociological, theoretical, topical, toxicological, tricycle, tropical, typographical, tyrannical, umbilical, uncritical, uneconomical, unethical, untypical, vehicle, vertical, viatical, virological, zoological. |
| 3 | -k u l | aeronautical, agrochemical, allegorical, anarchical, anatomical, ankle, anthropological, article, barnacle, biblical, bifocal, biochemical, brickle, buckle, cackle, chemical, Chronicle, chuckle, circle, clavicle, clerical, clinical, commonsensical, coracle, cortical, crackle, cuticle, cycle, debacle, diacritical, domical, ducal, encircle, epochal, equivocal, etymological, farcical, fecal, fickle, fiscal, focal, follicle, freckle, geophysical, gonococcal, grackle, grammatical, granduncle, hackle, heckle, heterocercal, hierarchical, honeysuckle, Huckle, hypothetical, impractical, Sokol, sparkle, speckle, spectacle, sprinkle, stickle, suckle, tabernacle, tackle, tentacle, jackal, knuckle, local, maniacal, matriarchal, medical, meikle, meteorological, methodical, Mickle, miracle, monocle, motorcycle, muckle, mythical, nautical, nickel, Nickle, Nicol, numerical, obstacle, Oracle, oratorical, particle, patriarchal, photochemical, pickle, pinnacle, polemical, political, pontifical, practical, pumpernickel, quizzical, radical, ramshackle, rankle, rascal, receptacle, reciprocal, recycle, ruckle, runkle, satirical, shackle, shekel, sickle, skeptical, tickle, tinkle, trickle, twinkle, typical, uncle, unequivocal, unicycle, unshackle, vocal, Winkle, wrinkle. |
| 5 | -z i k u l | lackadaisical, metaphysical, musical, physical. |
| 4 | -i k u l | acoustical, alphabetical, analytical, antithetical, apolitical, archaeological, archeological, astrological, astronautical, astronomical, asymmetrical, atypical, autobiographical, bicycle, biographical, biological, biomedical, biotechnological, botanical, categorical, cervical, chronological, classical, comical, conical, critical, cubicle, cyclical, cylindrical, cynical, dermatological, diabolical, dialectical, ecclesiastical, ecological, economical, ecumenical, egotistical, electrical, electrochemical, electromechanical, elliptical, empirical, encyclical, epidemiological, eschatological, ethical, ethnical, evangelical, fanatical, galenical, geographical, geological, geometrical, geopolitical, graphical, gynecological, helical, heretical, historical, hypercritical, hypocritical, hysterical, icicle, identical, ideological, illogical, immunological, spherical, statistical, stereotypical, strategical, surgical, symmetrical, tactical, technical, technological, teleological, testicle, theatrical, theological, inimical, ironical, lexical, liturgical, logical, logistical, lyrical, magical, mathematical, mechanical, metallurgical, metaphorical, methodological, metrical, morphological, mystical, mythological, neoclassical, neurological, nonelectrical, nonpolitical, nonsensical, nonsurgical, nontechnical, ontological, optical, ornithological, paradoxical, pathological, pedagogical, periodical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, pharmacological, philosophical, phonological, physiological, popsicle, preclinical, problematical, prototypical, psychical, psychological, puritanical, rabbinical, radiological, rhetorical, sabbatical, semiclassical, semicylindrical, semitropical, serological, sociological, theoretical, topical, toxicological, tricycle, tropical, typographical, tyrannical, umbilical, uncritical, uneconomical, unethical, untypical, vehicle, vertical, viatical, virological, zoological. |
| 3 | -k u l | aeronautical, agrochemical, allegorical, anarchical, anatomical, ankle, anthropological, article, barnacle, biblical, bifocal, biochemical, brickle, buckle, cackle, chemical, Chronicle, chuckle, circle, clavicle, clerical, clinical, commonsensical, coracle, cortical, crackle, cuticle, cycle, debacle, diacritical, domical, ducal, encircle, epochal, equivocal, etymological, farcical, fecal, fickle, fiscal, focal, follicle, freckle, geophysical, gonococcal, grackle, grammatical, granduncle, hackle, heckle, heterocercal, hierarchical, honeysuckle, Huckle, hypothetical, impractical, Sokol, sparkle, speckle, spectacle, sprinkle, stickle, suckle, tabernacle, tackle, tentacle, jackal, knuckle, local, maniacal, matriarchal, medical, meikle, meteorological, methodical, Mickle, miracle, monocle, motorcycle, muckle, mythical, nautical, nickel, Nickle, Nicol, numerical, obstacle, Oracle, oratorical, particle, patriarchal, photochemical, pickle, pinnacle, polemical, political, pontifical, practical, pumpernickel, quizzical, radical, ramshackle, rankle, rascal, receptacle, reciprocal, recycle, ruckle, runkle, satirical, shackle, shekel, sickle, skeptical, tickle, tinkle, trickle, twinkle, typical, uncle, unequivocal, unicycle, unshackle, vocal, Winkle, wrinkle. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-h-i-i-l-m-s-w" | |
-1 letter: chiliasm. | |
-2 letters: chiasmi, chimlas, ischial, laicism. | |
-3 letters: chiasm, chilis, chimla, claims, ischia, laichs, lichis, sialic, silica. | |
-4 letters: amici, calms, chams, chasm, chaws, chias, chili, cilia, claim, clams, clash, claws, hails, halms, iliac, laich, laics, lichi, limas, machs, mails, malic, micas, milch, milia, salic, salmi, schwa, shawl, shawm, swail, swami, wails, whams, whims, wisha. | |
-5 letters: ails. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-h-i-i-l-m-s-w" | |
+2 letters: whimsically. | |
+3 letters: whimsicality. | |
+4 letters: whimsicalness. | |
+5 letters: whimsicalities. | |
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