Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

unefficacious

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
un-ef-fi-ca-cious
IPA
23
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Not efficacious.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English efficacious English unefficacious From un- + efficacious.

Inflected Forms

more unefficacious (comparative) most unefficacious (superlative)

Questions

What does unefficacious mean?
Not efficacious.
Where does unefficacious come from?
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English efficacious English unefficacious From un- + efficacious.

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