render
/ˈɹɛn.dɚ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.78 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The shot rendered her immobile."
- "[…] St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit."
- "This service has suffered badly from Department for Transport-inspired cuts which reduced it from hourly to two-hourly. This, coupled with regular cancellations, has rendered the train service between the area's two biggest towns almost unusable."
- "The pianist rendered the Beethoven sonata beautifully."
- "we may, at last, render our philosophy like that of Epictetus"
- "to render Latin into English"
Etymology
From Middle English renderen, rendren, from Old French rendre (“render, give back”), from Late Latin rendere, from Latin reddere (“make, give back”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈɹɛn.dɚ/
- British English: /ˈɹɛn.də/