Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

pregentrified

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: pre-gen-tri-fied
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Prior to gentrification.

Example Sentences

"So at times does the portrait’s artist, Justin Bua, whose characters are from a world far away in place and time: the pregentrified streets of the Upper West Side of Manhattan in the 1970s and ’80s."

Etymology

From pre- + gentrified.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: pre

Questions

What does pregentrified mean?: Prior to gentrification.
Where does pregentrified come from?: From pre- + gentrified.

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