Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

nonproof

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: non-proof
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A failure to prove something; the absence of a proof

Example Sentences

"Here is another nonproof of the existence of God."
"In his 1965 paper about his nonproof of the Poincaré Conjecture[…] Dr. Stallings ended on a musing note:"

Etymology

From non- + proof.

Inflected Forms

nonproofs (plural)

Questions

What does nonproof mean?: A failure to prove something; the absence of a proof
Where does nonproof come from?: From non- + proof.

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