folly
noun / verb
Meaning
- nounFoolishness that results from a lack of foresight or lack of practicality.
Example:
It would be folly to walk all that way, knowing the shops are probably shut by now.
- verbTo follow.
- nounA clump of trees, particularly one on the crest of a hill (or sometimes on a stretch of open ground).
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Five-letter puzzle facts
- How common
- Common
- #1,248 of 8,600 five-letter words by how often they're used
- Can be a Play Five answer
- As a first guess
- Tests likely letters better than 10% of common five-letter words.
- Vowels: 1 · Different letters: 4 · Repeated letters: l