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surryph

surryph is the archaic form of serif.

Meaning of serif

Noun

serif (plural serifs)

  1. A short line added to the end of a stroke in traditional typefaces, such as Times New Roman.
    • It is generally believed, by those who study such things, that serif typefaces are easier to read when reading a lot of words. The hickeys (serifs) on each letter tend to push our eye toward the next letter.2018, Paul W. Ross, Revival: The Handbook of Software for Engineers and Scientists

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Forms of surryph

pluralsurryphs

Words formed from surryph

  • sans-surryph

Questions about surryph

What is surryph the archaic form of?
Surryph is the archaic form of serif.

Words near surryph in the dictionary

  1. surroyals
  2. surry
  3. Surry County
  4. surry fex
  5. Surry Hills
  6. surryph
  7. sursassite
  8. surseance
  9. surseances
  10. surshringar
  11. sursie

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Adapted from Wiktionary: surryph (page history and authors); serif (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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