how to pronounce drollery

/ˈdɹəʊləɹi/

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drollery is pronounced in four syllables

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meanings of drollery

noun:

Something humorous, funny or comical.
Comical quality.
A puppet show; a comic play or entertainment; a comic picture; a caricature.
A joke; a funny story.
Amusing behavior.
A small decorative image in the margin of an illuminated manuscript.

drollery frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word drollery occurs in english on average 0 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics drollery can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that drollery can be often used in the following areas:

1) communication, information, and media;

2) leisure and entertainment;