stillth
/stɪlθ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "And suddenly the magic of this place — the fragrance and the stillth and the peace of it — took Dicky by the throat."
- "[…] a battle rages in the old pile again tonight. "Will no stilth ever come to bad auld Fergus Keep?" a man of the roads once said to me, when I stopped to rest on a bridge high above the gorge of White Abbey. He was maundering and mouthing about battles and thirst, in one breath."
- "Whenever I was in deep thought in the stillth of a night in longing for the mainland, it seemed that a voice was calling in the dark."
Etymology
From Middle English stilthe, from Old English *stilþ, *stillþ, *stillþu (“stillness”), from Proto-Germanic *stilliþō (“stillness, quietness”), equivalent to still + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Cognate with West Frisian stilte (“silence, stillness, quietness”), Dutch stilte (“silence, stillness, quietness”), Low German stilte (“quietness”), Old High German stillida (“quietness”).
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Inflected Forms
stilth (alternative)