Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

quicksandlike

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: quick-san-d-like
IPA

33

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Resembling or characteristic of quicksand.

Example Sentences

"Even though the beavers had moved on, the silt remained as a deep, inviting, wet, and murky mass of quicksandlike mud."

Etymology

From quicksand + -like.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: quicksand

Inflected Forms

more quicksandlike (comparative) most quicksandlike (superlative)

Questions

What does quicksandlike mean?: Resembling or characteristic of quicksand.
Where does quicksandlike come from?: From quicksand + -like.

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