scototherapy
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Therapeutic use of darkness, once proposed to treat malaria and more recently to treat sleep disorders and depression.
Uncountable
Etymology
From scoto- + therapy.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: scoto
Usage
Inflected Forms
scototherapies (plural)