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hairlike

adjective

hairlike is spelled H-A-I-R-L-I-K-E: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 35 million words in written English, the 182,517th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, hairlike means “Resembling hair; having the texture, consistency, or appearance of hair” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in hairlike?

Letters8: H-A-I-R-L-I-K-E
In writingabout once in every 35 million words; the 182,517th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone 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 hairlike?

Hairlike appears about once in every 35 million words in written English, the 182,517th 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).

Forms of hairlike

  • more hairlike comparative
  • most hairlike superlative

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

What does hairlike mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Resembling hair; having the texture, consistency, or appearance of hair.

    Near-synonym: furlike

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

Hairlike in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense Translations:

LanguageWords
Germanhaarähnlich

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 hairlike come from?

From hair + -like.

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

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