silklike
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The first artificial silk was cellulose-based rayon, known as viscose in Europe; DuPont's entirely synthetic nylon was insufficiently silklike at first to serve as a good substitute in fashion but quickly replaced Japanese silk for Allied military applications during World War II."
Etymology
From silk + -like, q.v.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more silklike (comparative)
most silklike (superlative)