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smilie

noun

smilie is spelled S-M-I-L-I-E: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 26 million words in written English, the 155,937th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, smilie means “Alternative spelling of smiley” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of smilie is smilies.

How many letters and syllables are in smilie?

Letters6: S-M-I-L-I-E
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 26 million words; the 155,937th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is smilie?

Smilie appears about once in every 26 million words in written English, the 155,937th 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).

How do you pronounce smilie?

    Smilie has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

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

    What rhymes with smilie?

    No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as smilie.

    Spelled with the same letters in another order: simile.

    Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

    Forms of smilie

    • smilies plural

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

    What does smilie mean?

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

    noun

    1. 1

      rareAlternative spelling of smiley.

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

    Where does smilie come from?

    From smile + -ie.

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

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