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paly

/ˈpeɪli/adjective

paly is an adjective meaning “Palewise; vertically striped” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-A-L-Y, and it appears about once in every 16 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does paly mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    Palewise; vertically striped.

  2. 2

    obsoletePale; lacking colour.

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

How do you pronounce paly?

  • /ˈpeɪli/

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

Forms of paly

  • more paly comparative
  • most paly superlative

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

How common is paly?

Paly appears about once in every 16 million words in written English, the 119,826th 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 paly come from?

Compare French palé. See pale (“a stake”).

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