Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

ravelled

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: rav-elled
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Entwined together; tangled.

adj

Unravelled; frayed.

adj

Complicated; confused; involved.

adj

Of a variable in the APL programming language: which has been reshaped into a vector.

verb

simple past and past participle of ravel

adj

Of bread: made from flour and bran.

Example Sentences

"[I]n them are minute glands, which resemble ravelled tubes […]"
"What glory's due to him that could divide / Such ravelled interests?"
"LOAD.S loads a sequence of scalars from the ravelled form of a matrix into successive AM elements."

Etymology

From ravel + -ed.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: ravel

Inflected Forms

more ravelled (comparative) most ravelled (superlative)

Phrases

ravelled bread

Questions

What does ravelled mean?: Entwined together; tangled.
Where does ravelled come from?: From ravel + -ed.

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