Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

crouplike

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
crou-p-like
IPA
17
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Resembling croup or some aspect of it; as with a crouplike cough (sounding like the typical cough of croup) or a crouplike illness (having a clinical picture and a clinical course similar to those of croup).

Etymology

From croup + -like.

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

more crouplike (comparative) most crouplike (superlative)

Questions

What does crouplike mean?
Resembling croup or some aspect of it; as with a crouplike cough (sounding like the typical cough of croup) or a crouplike illness (having a clinical picture and a clinical course similar to those of croup).
Where does crouplike come from?
From croup + -like.

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