Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

inconfident

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: in-con-fi-dent
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

unconfident; lacking confidence

Example Sentences

"This is in perfect accord with our finding that the confident judgment of a given subject is more liable to be correct than an inconfident one by the same subject."

Etymology

From in- + confident.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: in

Inflected Forms

more inconfident (comparative) most inconfident (superlative)

Questions

What does inconfident mean?: unconfident; lacking confidence
Where does inconfident come from?: From in- + confident.

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