dryas
/ˈdɹaɪ.əs/noun
dryas is spelled D-R-Y-A-S: 5 letters. It appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 109,062nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, dryas means “Any of several plants of the genus Dryas; the mountain avens” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of dryas is dryases.
How many letters and syllables are in dryas?
| Letters | 5: D-R-Y-A-S |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 13 million words; the 109,062nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is dryas?
Dryas appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 109,062nd 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 dryas?
- /ˈdɹaɪ.əs/
- /ˈdɹaɪ.æs/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What rhymes with dryas?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as dryas.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: yards.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of dryas
- dryases plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does dryas mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Any of several plants of the genus Dryas; the mountain avens.
- 2
One of two periods of cold and increased glaciation thousands of years before the present (Younger Dryas and Older Dryas).
noun
- 1
Either of two climatic stages of the late glacial period in Northern Europe in which plants of the genus Dryas were abundant
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does dryas come from?
Borrowed from translingual Dryas for the plants, from both Latin Dryas and Ancient Greek Δρῠᾰ́ς (Drŭắs), derived from δρῦς (drûs, “tree, oak”). The second definition comes from the large quantity of pollen from the plant that is found in ice cores dating from these periods.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).