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mississippi scheme

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.04 in modern English

Syllables
mis-sis-sip-pi scheme
IPA
30
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A financial scheme devised by John Law in 18th-century France.

name

A political strategy used by white Democrats in Mississippi during the Reconstruction era, by intimidating black voters and to guarantee that white Democrats would take control of the state government.

American usage

Usage

Inflected Forms

the Mississippi Scheme (canonical)

Synonyms

Mississippi Bubble

Questions

What does mississippi scheme mean?
A financial scheme devised by John Law in 18th-century France.

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