Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

ersatzist

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: er-satzist
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Pertaining to or exemplifying ersatzism.

noun

An adherent of ersatzism.

Example Sentences

"Linguistic ersatzists hold that even if Lewis happened to be right about which hunks of stuff there are, he would still be wrong about modality."

Etymology

From ersatz + -ist.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: ersatz

Inflected Forms

more ersatzist (comparative) most ersatzist (superlative) ersatzists (plural)

Questions

What does ersatzist mean?: Pertaining to or exemplifying ersatzism.
Where does ersatzist come from?: From ersatz + -ist.

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