Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

self-create

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.82 in modern English

Syllables: self--cre-ate
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To create oneself or itself.

Intransitive verb

verb

To create (something) on one's own, without help from others.

Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"To be is to self-create, renovate, and endure."
"Have you tried doing it yourself? It's not easy. I was hoping to illustrate this article with some self-created buzzwords for leftwingers to use. The first one I came up with was "molehill mountaineer", a pejorative term to describe the sort of perpetually furious rightwing weevil who spends their life calculatedly conflating issues such as the "Ground Zero mosque" into gigantic media crapgasms."

Etymology

From self- + create.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: self-

Usage

Inflected Forms

self-creates (present, singular) self-creating (participle, present) self-created (participle, past) self-created (past)

Questions

What does self-create mean?: To create oneself or itself.
Where does self-create come from?: From self- + create.

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