veloplasty
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
repair of the soft palate
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *weg- Proto-Indo-European *wegslomder.? Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ-der.? Proto-Italic *wekslom Latin vēlumder. English velo- Proto-Hellenic *plátʰyō Proto-Hellenic *plát͏̌t͏̌ō? Ancient Greek πλᾰ́σσω (plắssō) Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Hellenic *-tós Ancient Greek -τός (-tós) Ancient Greek πλᾰστός (plăstós)der. English -plasty English veloplasty From velo- + -plasty.