formalwear
noun
formalwear is a noun meaning “Clothing suited to formal occasions” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-O-R-M-A-L-W-E-A-R, and it appears about once in every 23 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does formalwear mean?
noun
- 1
Clothing suited to formal occasions
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce formalwear?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-formalwear.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of formalwear
- formal wear
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is formalwear?
Formalwear appears about once in every 23 million words in written English, the 145,125th 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).
Where does formalwear come from?
From formal + -wear.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).