Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

contracept

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: con-tra-cept
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To use contraception

Intransitive verb

verb

To administer contraception, especially to a population of wild animals

Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"Through the wisdom of our legislators, only the intelligent may contracept, while the stupid are commanded to reproduce their kind."
"… the facile assumption that we may be able to contracept our way to the Great Society."
"it is also assumed that women who breastfeed being contracepting as soon as they stop breastfeeding unless the sum of the duration of breastfeeding and the duration of contraception is greater than the length of the interval from last birth to next conception"

Etymology

Back-formation from contraception. Attested US 1932, with earlier occasional use as abbreviation for contraceptive in the medical literature; popularized US mid-1960s in the context of the sexual revolution.

Word Breakdown

Root: *kap-

Usage

Inflected Forms

contracepts (present, singular) contracepting (participle, present) contracepted (participle, past) contracepted (past)

Questions

What does contracept mean?: To use contraception
Where does contracept come from?: Back-formation from contraception. Attested US 1932, with earlier occasional use as abbreviation for contraceptive in the medical literature; popularized US mid-1960s in the context of the sexual revolution.

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