resemble
/ɹɪˈzɛmbəl/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.73 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The twins resemble each other."
- "He turned back to the scene before him and the enormous new block of council dwellings. The design was some way after Corbusier but the block was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site."
- "But what you've just described does resemble a person of that kind."
- "Using modeling simulations, they determined the most likely scenario was that the object is powered by a central black hole surrounded by a cocoon of gas that makes it resemble a star."
- "And th'other all yclad in garments light, / Discolour'd like to womanish disguise, / He did resemble to his Ladie bright [...]."
- "They can so well resemble mans speech."
Etymology
From Middle English resemblen, from Anglo-Norman resembler, ressembler, from re- + sembler (“to seem”). By surface analysis, re- + semble.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɹɪˈzɛmbəl/
- British English: /ɹɪˈzɛmbəl/