ingress, egress, and regress
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.21 in modern English
27
Scrabble Score
23
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "It had ever been the custom of the family, and by length of time was almost become a matter of common right, that the eldest son of it should have free ingress, egress, and regress into foreign parts before marriage—not only for the sake of bettering his own private parts, by the benefit of exercise and change of so much air—but simply for the mere delectation of his fancy, by the feather put into his cap, of having been abroad—tantum valet, my father would say, quantum sonat."