rumour
/ˈɹumɚ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.38 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
Example Sentences
- "Rumour had it (though not proved) that she descended from the house of the lords Talbot de Malahide"
- "There were rumours, new rumours every morning, delightful and outrageous rumours, so that the lumps in the porridge were swallowed without comment and the fish-cakes were eaten without contumely."
- ""Keep off Conductor Rails" said red-painted notices at the platform ends, for third-rails were laid in many places even where electric trains never normally ran, and there had been many rumours of impending electrification of the Wirral, as a natural extension of the Mersey system, a quarter of a century before the change was actually made."
- "I myself gave support to the summoning of the Estates General ... as merely mistaken . Similarly it might be held that Paradise originated in a rumour invented in hell to make society the more interesting . ' ' We need a saviour ."
- "Dame Rumour outstrides me yet again."
- "Prithee, listen well; / I heard a bustling rumour like a fray, / And the wind brings it from the Capitol."
Etymology
From Middle English rumour, from Old French rumour, rumor, from Latin rūmor (“common talk”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *rewH- (“to shout, roar”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: rumour, rūmor, *rewH-
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈɹumɚ/
- British English: /ˈɹuːmə/