Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

irrelephant

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ir-rele-phant
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Not related to elephants; irrelevant to the consideration or discussion of elephants.

Humorous

Example Sentences

"Captain Spaulding: One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know. Then we tried to remove the tusks. […] But they were embedded so firmly we couldn't budge them. Of course, in Alabama the Tuscaloosa, but that's entirely irrelephant to what I was talking about."
"It was no fluke that the best of elephant-joke books — 101 Elephant Jokes — was written by Robert Blake, fourteen, who ran the following warning at the beginning of his work: "Practically no parents will think elephant jokes are funny." But all of this is quite irrelephant; bring on the jokes."
"Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant."

Etymology

Blend of irrelevant + elephant.

Usage

Humorous

Inflected Forms

more irrelephant (comparative) most irrelephant (superlative)

Questions

What does irrelephant mean?: Not related to elephants; irrelevant to the consideration or discussion of elephants.
Where does irrelephant come from?: Blend of irrelevant + elephant.

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