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What does frippery mean? Is frippery a Scrabble word?

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Is frippery a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word frippery is a Scrabble US word. The word frippery is worth 18 points in Scrabble:

F4R1I1P3P3E1R1Y4

Is frippery a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word frippery is a Scrabble UK word and has 18 points:

F4R1I1P3P3E1R1Y4

Is frippery a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word frippery is a Words With Friends word. The word frippery is worth 19 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

F4R1I1P4P4E1R1Y3

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8-letter words (1 found)

FRIPPERY,

7-letter words (1 found)

FRIPPER,

6-letter words (2 found)

RIPPER,YIPPER,

5-letter words (18 found)

EYRIR,FERRY,FIERY,FIRER,FIRRY,FRIER,FRYER,PERRY,PIPER,PREIF,PRIEF,PRIER,PRYER,REFRY,REIFY,RIFER,RIPER,RYPER,

4-letter words (20 found)

FIER,FIRE,PERI,PERP,PIER,PIPE,PIPY,PREP,PREY,PYRE,REFI,REIF,REPP,RIFE,RIPE,RIPP,RYFE,RYPE,YIPE,YIRR,

3-letter words (25 found)

ERF,ERR,FER,FEY,FIE,FIR,FRY,IRE,PEP,PER,PIE,PIP,PIR,PRE,PRY,PYE,REF,REI,REP,RIF,RIP,RYE,YEP,YER,YIP,

2-letter words (9 found)

EF,ER,FE,FY,IF,PE,PI,RE,YE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 77 words from frippery according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of frippery

frippery

Etymology

From French friperie, from Old French fripier (“to rub up and down, to wear into rags”). Compare fripper.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfɹɪpəɹi/

Noun

frippery (countable and uncountable, plural fripperies)

  1. Ostentation, as in fancy clothing.
  2. Useless things; trifles.
    • 1892 April, Frederick Law Olmsted, Report by F.L.O., quoted in 2003, Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America, New York, N.Y.: Crown Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 170:
      [Olmsted reiterated his insistence that in Chicago] simplicity and reserve will be practiced and petty effects and frippery avoided.
  3. (obsolete) Cast-off clothes.
  4. (obsolete) The trade or traffic in old clothes.
  5. (obsolete) The place where old clothes are sold.
  6. Hence: secondhand finery; cheap and tawdry decoration; affected elegance.

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References

  • 1897 Universal Dictionary of the English Language, Robert Hunter and Charles Morris, eds., v 2 p 2213. [for entries 2, 3, 4, & 5]: Frippery (Page: 597)

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