Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

famicom

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.20 in modern English

Syllables: fam-i-com
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

3

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A Family Computer (chiefly those available within Japan).

Example Sentences

"School students as well as middle-aged salaried workers queued up to buy one of these Famicoms."
"After a trip to Tokyo at the end of 1983, a business partner of the Stampers had sent them a Nintendo Famicom […]"

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese ファミコン (famikon), a syllabic abbreviation of ファミリーコンピューター (famirīkonpyūtā), a wasei eigo (和製英語; pseudo-anglicism) derived from family + computer.

Inflected Forms

Famicoms (plural)

Derived Forms

Famiclone

Questions

What does famicom mean?: A Family Computer (chiefly those available within Japan).
Where does famicom come from?: Borrowed from Japanese ファミコン (famikon), a syllabic abbreviation of ファミリーコンピューター (famirīkonpyūtā), a wasei eigo (和製英語; pseudo-anglicism) derived from family + computer.

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