Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

repairment

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
re-pair-ment
IPA
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The act of repairing.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

Mid 19th century, from repair + -ment. Compare Middle English repairment, repeirement, repeyrement (“a callus at the fracture of a bone; a repair of a fracture”), after Latin reparāmentum.

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

repairments (plural)

Synonyms

reparation

Questions

What does repairment mean?
The act of repairing.
Where does repairment come from?
Mid 19th century, from repair + -ment. Compare Middle English repairment, repeirement, repeyrement (“a callus at the fracture of a bone; a repair of a fracture”), after Latin reparāmentum.

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