Sylph is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.
You can make 39 anagrams from letters in sylph (hlpsy).
1650-60; New Latin sylphēs (plural), coined by Paracelsus; apparently blend of sylva (variant spelling of Latin silva forest) and Greek nýmphē nymph
Her steps were as light as a sylph's, nothing rattled in the sick-room as she moved about it.
On this the sylph opened her fire, and soon sent them to the right about.
Meg is always moaning and groaning because she isn't a sylph!
Her style was "sylph," and so she was gauzy and floating in all her drapery.
But his first desire was to ascertain what had become of the sylph.
She has the figure and motions of a sylph, the face of an angel, the eye of love itself.
The Zephyr was rapidly approaching the sylph, as the sailboat was called.
The sylph came about, with sails trembling, and lost headway.
He could not picture her as a sylph of one hundred and fifty pounds.
The sylph rose and sank to the first long roll of the open sea.
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