verbiage
/ˈvɝ.bi.ɪd͡ʒ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.43 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "bureaucratic verbiage"
- "We're done drafting our paper except for the final check to see whether any verbiage can be reduced."
- "A very garrulous person, he approached the counter in a fog of verbiage."
- "Near-synonyms: phrasing; terminology; phraseology"
- "In each article of this series, there is a paragraph on nutrition; the verbiage for it was developed by consensus among the section editors, and therefore no elective rewording should be done (by others) in any such paragraph."
- "We're done drafting our paper except for the final verbiage on fire safety, which will be supplied by the safety engineers."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: French
Word Breakdown
- Root: verbiage
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈvɝ.bi.ɪd͡ʒ/
- British English: /ˈvɜː(ɹ).bi.ɪd͡ʒ/