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elmy

adjective

elmy is spelled E-L-M-Y: 4 letters. It appears about once in every 71 million words in written English, the 265,644th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, elmy means “Pertaining to elm trees; in which elms grow” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in elmy?

Letters4: E-L-M-Y
In writingabout once in every 71 million words; the 265,644th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone 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 elmy?

Elmy appears about once in every 71 million words in written English, the 265,644th 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).

What rhymes with elmy?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as elmy.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: lyme, yelm.

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 elmy

  • more elmy comparative
  • most elmy superlative

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does elmy mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    rarePertaining to elm trees; in which elms grow.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does elmy come from?

From elm + -y.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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