Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

vanishingly rare

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.11 in modern English

Syllables: van-ish-ing-ly rare
IPA

25

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

4

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Extremely uncommon.

Example Sentences

"When it was released in 2005, Brokeback Mountain entered the collective consciousness in a way that is vanishingly rare for a film with queer subject matter."

Questions

What does vanishingly rare mean?: Extremely uncommon.

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