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water sickness

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.82 in modern English

Syllables
wa-ter sick-ness
IPA
22
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Dropsy.

Archaic; Uncountable

Example Sentences

Etymology

From Middle English watersiknesse, wæterseocnesse, from Old English wætersēocnes (“dropsy”), equivalent to water + sickness.

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: watersiknesse, wætersēocnes

Usage

Questions

What does water sickness mean?
Dropsy.
Where does water sickness come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

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