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— English words —

• folly n. Foolishness that results from a lack of foresight or lack of practicality.
• folly n. Thoughtless action resulting in tragic consequence.
• folly n. (Architecture) A fanciful building built for purely ornamental reasons.
• folly n. A pinkish-red color.

— English words, defined in French —

• folly n. Imprudence, folie, bêtise.
• folly n. (Construction) Folie, maison de plaisance.

— English words, defined in Spanish —

• folly s. Locura.
• folly s. Disparate.
• folly s. Sinsentido.

— English word, defined in Italian —

• folly s. (Medicina) follia.

23 English words from 4 English definitions

action Architecture building built color consequence fanciful Foolishness for foresight from lack ornamental pinkish practicality purely reasons red resulting results that Thoughtless tragic

6 English words from 6 foreign definitions

bêtise Construction Disparate Imprudence Locura plaisance

6 foreign words from 6 foreign definitions

de␣plaisance folie follia maison maison␣de␣plaisance Medicina

2 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

folly␣tower folly␣towers

One prefix (New word found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

Seward's␣Folly

5 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

FOL fol. foll OLL Olly

3 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

LLO lof YLL

2 anagrams (New words found by changing the order of the letters.)

folyl fyllo

7 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

fly␣low folkly Folley foully orl␣fly owlfly wolfly

5 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

Floy foll Olly yoll yo'll

30 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

Bolly colly dolly Dolly felly filly foldy foley Foley folky fonly foxly fully golly holly Holly jolly Jolly lolly Lolly molly Molly Nolly polly Polly rolly Rolly solly wolly zolly

2 lipograms (New words found when removing only one letter.)

foll Olly

3 epenthesis (New words found when adding only one letter.)

folkly Folley foully

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