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descantist

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
des-cant-ist
IPA
13
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

One who plays a descant.

Etymology

From descant + -ist.

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

descantists (plural)

Questions

What does descantist mean?
One who plays a descant.
Where does descantist come from?
From descant + -ist.

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