reretreat
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "However, the ice sheet did not pass away by continuous and steady recession but by oscillations, readvances and reretreats; and some of the readvances may have covered considerable territory and have seriously changed the drainage."
- "The ice margin had many oscillations, readvances and reretreats, each probably covering many thousands of years."
- "Nuruddin feigned reretreat."
Etymology
From re- + retreat.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: re