Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

debtlike

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: debtlike
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

1

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Resembling debt.

Example Sentences

"Before the crisis, perhaps 70 percent of demand came from practitioners of convertible arbitrage, who aimed to profit from the interplay of the debtlike and equitylike characteristics of the securities."

Etymology

From debt + -like.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: debt

Inflected Forms

more debtlike (comparative) most debtlike (superlative)

Questions

What does debtlike mean?: Resembling debt.
Where does debtlike come from?: From debt + -like.

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