script
/skɹɪpt/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.36 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The written document containing the dialogue and action for a drama; the text of a stage play, movie, or other performance. Especially, the final form used for the performance itself.
Countable
Example Sentences
- "But the one [letter] in the unknown script and with a metropolitan post mark—could it be from some London Woman?"
- "I was following a social script that teaches women to build lives around money they don’t fully understand."
- "I wrote a Python script to put all the files into the right format."
- "He located a doctor in Brooklyn who was a writing fool. This croaker would go three scripts a day for as high as thirty tablets a script."
- "Shit, he got the scripts for the cough / In the H, gotta hit Johnny for the frost, swerved off"
- "She gave me a Bipolar II diagnosis and a script for epilepsy medicine that could be used off-label in cases like mine."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-? Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreybʰ- Proto-Indo-European *(s)kréybʰeti Proto-Italic *skreiβō Latin scrībō Latin scrīptum Old French escritbor. Middle English scrit English script From Middle English scrit, borrowed from Old French escrit, from Latin scriptum (something written), from scrībō (“write”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /skɹɪpt/
- British English: /skɹɪpt/