Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

woodwright

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: wood-wright
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Example Sentences

"These legends of many-sided craftsmanship, of gold and silver and armourer's work, the stories of the masters in marble and stone, the weavers and the dyers, the woodwrights, the carvers and the painters, […]"

Etymology

From wood + wright. Compare Middle English timber-wrighte, tymbre wryth (“carpenter”, literally “timber-wright”), Old English trēowwyrhta (“carpenter”), see treewright, timberwright.

Inflected Forms

woodwrights (plural)

Synonyms

carpenter joiner timberwright treewright

Questions

What does woodwright mean?: A woodworker.
Where does woodwright come from?: From wood + wright. Compare Middle English timber-wrighte, tymbre wryth (“carpenter”, literally “timber-wright”), Old English trēowwyrhta (“carpenter”), see treewright, timberwright.

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