early





early - adjective

  • at or near the beginning of a period of time or course of events or before the usual or expected time
  • being or occurring at an early stage of development
  • of an early stage in the development of a language or literature
  • belonging to the distant past
  • very young
  • expected in the near future

early - adverb

  • during an early stage
  • before the usual time or the time expected
  • in good time

early - thesaurus

betimes   former   other  


View spelling list er and ear words and learn about the word early in the Spellzone English spelling course, Unit 11. Spelling choices for /er/ sound: er, ir, ur, ear + wor.

Scrabble score for early

e is 1 a is 1 r is 1 l is 1 y is 4
Scrabble score = 8

generated at 15:48:09 on 28-04-24

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