rapid
/ˈɹæp.ɪd/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.38 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "a rapid stream"
- "rapid growth"
- "rapid improvement"
- "Ascend my Chariot; guide the rapid Wheeles."
- "The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. There is something humiliating about it.[…]Can those harmless but refined fellow-diners be the selfish cads whose gluttony and personal appearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival?"
- "Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion.""
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁p- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *h₁r̥h₁pyéti Proto-Italic *rapjō Latin rapiō Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Latin rapidusder. Middle French rapidebor. ▲ Latin rapidusbor. English rapid Borrowed from Middle French rapide and its etymon Latin rapidus.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: rapide, rapidus
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈɹæp.ɪd/
- British English: /ˈɹæp.ɪd/
Usage
Inflected Forms
more rapid (comparative)
rapider (comparative, proscribed)
most rapid (superlative)
rapidest (proscribed, superlative)
rapids (plural)