Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

unconfess

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: un-con-fess
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To retract a confession.

Example Sentences

"'It's no good trying to unconfess what three sessions of Auditing have uncovered. That boy is a devil.'"
"In the third couplet he confesses his destitution, says straightforwardly what he had said in the first couplet through the negations of irony; he confesses his utter destitution only to unconfess it in the final couplet."
"Like there's no established ensemble for driving your son's widow home after she's confessed and then unconfessed to his murder."

Etymology

From un- + confess.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: un

Inflected Forms

unconfesses (present, singular) unconfessing (participle, present) unconfessed (participle, past) unconfessed (past)

Questions

What does unconfess mean?: To retract a confession.
Where does unconfess come from?: From un- + confess.

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