drollery
/ˈdɹəʊləɹi/noun
drollery is spelled D-R-O-L-L-E-R-Y: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 42 million words in written English, the 199,120th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, drollery means “Comical quality” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of drollery is drolleries.
How many letters and syllables are in drollery?
| Letters | 8: D-R-O-L-L-E-R-Y |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 42 million words; the 199,120th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How common is drollery?
Drollery appears about once in every 42 million words in written English, the 199,120th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce drollery?
- /ˈdɹəʊləɹi/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-drollery.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of drollery
- drolleries plural
- drolerie
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does drollery mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Comical quality.
- 2
Amusing behavior.
- 3
Something humorous, funny or comical.
- 4
archaicA puppet show; a comic play or entertainment; a comic picture; a caricature.
- 5
A joke; a funny story.
- 6
A small decorative image in the margin of an illuminated manuscript.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does drollery come from?
From French drôlerie, from drôle + -erie; equivalent to droll + -ery.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).