Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

prepenultimate

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: prepenul-ti-mate
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Synonym of antepenultimate.

Example Sentences

"Inversion at each additional step by the attack of the monomer's electron pair insures that when carbon 3 becomes part of the prepenultimate unit and carbon 1 becomes part of the penultimate unit they will have the same configurations."
"The prepenultimate row reports overall statistics for ES engagements, which may be compared with CG engagements in the first row. The penultimate row provides chi-square tests of the difference between ES and CG engagements. The last row provides summary statistics for the entire sample, comprising both CG and ES engagements."

Etymology

From pre- + penultimate.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: pre

Inflected Forms

more prepenultimate (comparative) most prepenultimate (superlative)

Synonyms

antepenultimate

Questions

What does prepenultimate mean?: Synonym of antepenultimate.
Where does prepenultimate come from?: From pre- + penultimate.

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