Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

rateless

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: rate-less
IPA

8

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Describing a family of codes whose higher rate codes have codewords that are prefixes of those of the lower rate codes.

Etymology

From rate + -less.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: rate

Derived Forms

ratelessly ratelessness

Questions

What does rateless mean?: Describing a family of codes whose higher rate codes have codewords that are prefixes of those of the lower rate codes.
Where does rateless come from?: From rate + -less.

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