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Lollardy

noun

Lollardy is spelled L-O-L-L-A-R-D-Y: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 81 million words in written English, the 286,585th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, Lollardy means “The political and religious movement of the Lollards (Wycliffites)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of Lollardy is Lollardies.

How many letters and syllables are in Lollardy?

Letters8: L-O-L-L-A-R-D-Y
In writingabout once in every 81 million words; the 286,585th 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 Lollardy?

Lollardy appears about once in every 81 million words in written English, the 286,585th 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 Lollardy

  • Lollardies plural

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

What does Lollardy mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The political and religious movement of the Lollards (Wycliffites).

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

Where does Lollardy come from?

From the popular derogatory nickname Lollard given to those without an academic background, educated if at all only in English. By the mid-15th century the term lollard had come to mean heretic in general. More in Wikipedia at Lollardy § Etymology. Possibly related to lolling and lollygagging.

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

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