Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

was-sceptre

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.61 in modern English

Syllables: was-s-cep-tre
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A type of sceptre with an animal head and a forked tail appearing in Ancient Egyptian art and hieroglyphs.

Etymology

Borrowed from Egyptian wꜣs (“was-sceptre, rule”), compounded with sceptre.

Origin

Source language: Egyptian

Word Breakdown

Root: wꜣs

Inflected Forms

was-sceptres (plural) was sceptre (alternative) was-scepter (alternative) was scepter (alternative)

Questions

What does was-sceptre mean?: A type of sceptre with an animal head and a forked tail appearing in Ancient Egyptian art and hieroglyphs.
Where does was-sceptre come from?: It is traced to Egyptian.

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