structure
/ˈstɹʌkt͡ʃɚ/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.84 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The birds had built an amazing structure out of sticks and various discarded items."
- "The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, so that the actual structure which had come down to posterity retained the secret magic of a promise rather than the overpowering splendour of a great architectural achievement."
- "Built in the 1980s, the country’s Scott Base consists of 12 structures that officials want replaced by three large, interconnected buildings, plus a separate helicopter hangar."
- "He studied the structure of her face."
- "The structure of a sentence."
- "The structure of the society was still a mystery."
Etymology
From Middle French structure, from Latin structūra (“a fitting together, adjustment, building, erection, a building, edifice, structure”), from struere, past participle structus (“pile up, arrange, assemble, build”). Compare construct, instruct, destroy, etc.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: structure, structūra
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈstɹʌkt͡ʃɚ/
- British English: /ˈstɹʌk(t)ʃə/