pronuntiation
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
5
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "[…] I cannot ſee (eſpecially conſidering how neceſſary a thing true pronuntiation is both for the grace of the ſpeech, as for the commodity and aduantage it may beget to the common-wealth as well at home, as in commerce and traffique had in forraine parts with other nations by conferring with them in their own languages) how in this it can be accounted vnneceſſary to ſeeke a meanes whereby to remedy theſe manifold abuſes and imperfections in ſpeech and writing, […]"
- "Now Eloth being written in the holy tongue אלות and אילת was by tranſmigration ſhifted and remoued to diuers pronuntiations, a thing vſuall in Ebrew names, both of places and perſons."
- "ETHICS from Séveral Authors, the words accented to rénder the ENGLISH PRONUNTIATION éaſy to Fóreigners."
Etymology
From Latin prōnūntiātiō.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: prōnūntiātiō