Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

compartmentful

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: com-part-ment-ful
IPA

25

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

4

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A quantity sufficient to fill a compartment.

Example Sentences

"There they were, a train compartmentful, with their faces towards November Fair — what was left of it."
"He is clean and young and straight and far removed from the shadow procession I watch night after night, the procession that came to me early this morning and wakened me shrieking in the presence of a compartmentful of shocked strangers."
"The revolving door metes out the aromas as two platinum-grey old dames totter in, rouged up to the eyeballs, expelling several door-compartmentsful of intense coffee aroma onto the street."
"And the little compartmentful of cherry pie isn't bad."

Etymology

From compartment + -ful.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: compartment

Inflected Forms

compartmentfuls (plural) compartmentsful (plural)

Questions

What does compartmentful mean?: A quantity sufficient to fill a compartment.
Where does compartmentful come from?: From compartment + -ful.

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