Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

scientess

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: sci-ent-ess
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A female scientist.

Example Sentences

"Even Urania, the Muse of Astronomy, was more artiste in her day than scientess (word fully protected by contemplated copyright)."
"On account of your female Burbank, your scientess (scientistess is a twister. Peder Piber et a peg of piggled pebbers) won’t play ball with W R."
"ELEANOR M. GLEASON / gay, energetic “scientess” … / full of clever and original ideas / Science"
"I shall be an aviatrix scientess!"
"Beauteous Nancy Kwan stars as mad scientess, Suzy Wrong."
"Anyway, one scientist (a guy scientist, not a, whatchacallit, scientess) said maybe women just need to use their whole brain."

Etymology

From scientist + -ess (the suffix -ist is removed).

Word Breakdown

Suffix: scientist

Inflected Forms

scientesses (plural)

Questions

What does scientess mean?: A female scientist.
Where does scientess come from?: From scientist + -ess (the suffix -ist is removed).

How to pronounce scientess

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