faerie
Plural: faeries
Noun
- A fairy or an imaginary land inhabited by fairies.
- a small being, human in form, playful and having magical powers
- the enchanted realm of fairies
- Archaic spelling of fairy.
- Realm of the fays, fairyland.
Examples
- She imagined the Scrabble board as a FAERIE realm, full of magical words waiting to be discovered.
Origin / 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.
Scrabble Score: 9
faerie: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordfaerie: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
faerie: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 9
faerie: valid Words With Friends Word