unknown
/ʌnˈnoʊn/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.53 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not known; unidentified; not well known.
noun
Any thing, place, or situation about which nothing is known; an unknown fact or piece of information.
verb
Example Sentences
- "The concept has existed since times unknown."
- "The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certain afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house."
- "I suspect that this large and complex military railway system, shrouded in official secrecy for most of its operational life, remains unknown to many people."
- "Had God walked close beside her into the unknown?"
- "I think I learned more from my family than they did from me in the brief idyllic time we spent together. None of them much more than a mile from home, they carried the aura of a close-knit community as a shield against against the unknown."
- "As we know, There are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know There are known unknowns. That is to say We know there are some things We do not know."
Etymology
From Middle English *unknowen, *uniknowen, uniknowe, from Old English unġecnāwen (“unknown”), equivalent to un- + known.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ʌnˈnoʊn/
- British English: /ʌn(ˈn)əʊn/