Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cleflike

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: cle-flike
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Resembling a musical clef.

Example Sentences

"Early sculptures refer, often explicitly, to musical structure and notation: the torqued staffs of “Sculpture No. 17” (1935) or the cleflike curlicues of “Sculpture 11” (1934)."

Etymology

From clef + -like.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: clef

Inflected Forms

more cleflike (comparative) most cleflike (superlative)

Questions

What does cleflike mean?: Resembling a musical clef.
Where does cleflike come from?: From clef + -like.

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