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skytale

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
sky-tale
IPA
14
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Alternative form of scytale.

Etymology

From Ancient Greek σκυτάλη (skutálē, “club, baton, cylinder used for encoding and decoding”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: σκυτάλη

Inflected Forms

skytales (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

Skytalism

Questions

What does skytale mean?
Alternative form of scytale.
Where does skytale come from?
It is traced to Ancient Greek.

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