Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

tickless

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: tick-less
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Lacking ticks (the insect).

adj

Without a ticking sound.

adj

Having interrupts occur only when required, rather than at regular intervals.

Example Sentences

"Our suddenly tickless dog, now quite ticked-off, doesn't know who to kill first but by the time he rolls over, jaws snapping, the surgeons are practicing in the next county."
"Maybe with the new technology, they might have tickless bombs. They've had tickless clocks for years. And they even have seedless watermelons. So a tickless bomb should be routine."
"a tickless kernel; a tickless scheduler"

Etymology

From tick + -less.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: tick

Questions

What does tickless mean?: Lacking ticks (the insect).
Where does tickless come from?: From tick + -less.

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