Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

inspectioneer

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: in-spec-tion-eer
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

One who carries out an inspection; an inspector.

noun

Synonym of specksioneer (“chief harpooner”).

Example Sentences

"Javert was the very incarnation of devotion to duty, fictionally, but he was an unstable character compared to some of our inspectioneers in government."
"But linguistic “inspectioneers” who take the trouble of comparing Murray and Bradley's account of the word with that of Webster must wonder why the latter ignored or refused to follow the New English Dictionary's lead."
"He said that all the ship's provisions and stores would be locked up, and the keys given to the inspectioneer […]"
"His grandfather had used it to hunt the Greenland whale in the days when the whaling-ships came to the islands for their best inspectioneers."

Etymology

From inspection + -eer.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: inspection

Inflected Forms

inspectioneers (plural)

Synonyms

specksioneer

Questions

What does inspectioneer mean?: One who carries out an inspection; an inspector.
Where does inspectioneer come from?: From inspection + -eer.

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