hapax legomenons
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
30
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "The only hapax legomenon'''s of the poem occur in the first and the second lines, madárhiány ‘missing birds’ and nincs-világ ‘non-existing world’ are, in a grammatical sense, realizations of the concept of concentration."
- "You are producing a lot of hapax legomenons here, but don't worry, it's perfectly legal. The vowel a often became o in front of a nasal in Old English, so on- is a common variant of an-."
- "And while many people, we are sure, often use the other two in their everyday speech, their non-dictionary status means they are what kind of words? a) Neologisms b) Homonyms c) Hapax legomenons d) None of the above"
- "The subject of this paper covers the nonce words, in other words hapaxes (or hapax legomenons) encountered in Rylands manuscript. […] Key words: Rylands manuscript interlinear translation of Qoran into Turkic, hapax legomenons, […]"
- "Resisting and striving are both hapax legomenons. […] Hebrews has 124 instances of hapax legomenons, more than any other NT [New Testament] book based on the number of Greek words used."
- "Knowing what form to use when learning the representation of a word in an NLP pipeline can be a challenge for languages with rich inflectional morphology [6], where certain inflected forms may be so rare within available corpora that they manifest as hapax legomenons while their corresponding uninflected form might be quite common."