untopped
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
verb
simple past and past participle of untop
Example Sentences
- "Recently, there is commercial interest in planting trellised, untopped trees for earlier production in slow-growing regions such as the Western Cape."
- "In a Paris pizzeria, I watched rounds of pliable, untopped pizza dough get tossed into a very hot wood-burning oven and emerge puffed up, to be sprinkled simply with olive oil and salt."
- "Thucydides, writing many centuries ago, averred that men usually embark on wars of conquest out of an aspiration for power, wealth, or out of fear. This statement is still untopped in its concision and aptness."
Etymology
From un- + topped.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: un