Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

sofic

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: sof-ic
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Whose Cayley graph is an initially subamenable graph.

adj

Whose forbidden words form a regular language.

Example Sentences

"a sofic subshift"

Etymology

Coined by mathematician Benjamin Weiss in 1973, based on Hebrew סופי (“finite”).

Derived Forms

soficity

Questions

What does sofic mean?: Whose Cayley graph is an initially subamenable graph.
Where does sofic come from?: Coined by mathematician Benjamin Weiss in 1973, based on Hebrew סופי (“finite”).

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