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napery

noun

napery is spelled N-A-P-E-R-Y: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 95 million words in written English, the 313,259th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, napery means “Household linen, especially table linen” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of napery is naperies.

How many letters and syllables are in napery?

Letters6: N-A-P-E-R-Y
In writingabout once in every 95 million words; the 313,259th 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 napery?

Napery appears about once in every 95 million words in written English, the 313,259th 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 napery

  • naperies plural

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

What does napery mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    Household linen, especially table linen.

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

Where does napery come from?

From Middle English naperie, from Anglo-Norman naperie, Middle French naperie, from Old French nape + -erie.

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

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