feathery
/ˈfɛ.ðəɹ.i/adjective, noun
feathery is an adjective meaning “Resembling feathers” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-E-A-T-H-E-R-Y and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 3 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does feathery mean?
adjective
- 1
Resembling feathers.
- 2
Covered with feathers.
noun
- 1
rareslangSomeone who roleplays or describes themselves as being a bird or bird-like animal character with human characteristics.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce feathery?
- US /ˈfɛ.ðəɹ.i/
Feathery has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-feathery.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of feathery
- featherier comparative
- more feathery comparative
- featheriest superlative
- most feathery superlative
- featheries plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is feathery?
Feathery appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 53,573rd 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).
Feathery in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense covered with feathers:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does feathery come from?
From feather + -y.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).