worth
/ˈwɜːθ/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.16 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Deserving of.
adj
Making a fair equivalent of, repaying or compensating.
Example Sentences
- "How much / What is your house worth? - Now it's worth half what I paid for it. So it'd sure would be worthwhile to repair before putting it for sale."
- "Cleanliness is a virtue worth more than others."
- "A painting once thought to be worth thousands that is actually not worth much."
- "Is it well worth visiting your hometown? -Nah, Leicester is not worth it at all."
- "This rickety beater of a car isn’t worth repairing anymore."
- "He found going to the Edinburgh Castle was worth it."
Etymology
From Middle English worth, from Old English weorþ, from Proto-West Germanic *werþ, from Proto-Germanic *werþaz (“worthy, valuable”); from Proto-Indo-European *wert-. Cognate with Scots wirth (“worth”), Cimbrian bèart (“worth, value”), Dutch waard, weerd (“worth”), German wert (“worth”) (the source of Polish wart (“worth”), Ukrainian вартість (vartistʹ, “worth, value”), etc), Luxembourgish wäert (“worth”), Yiddish ווערט (vert), ווערד (verd, “worth, value”), Danish værd (“worth”), Faroese and Icelandic verður (“worth”), Norwegian Bokmål verdt (“worth”), Norwegian Nynorsk verd (“worth”), Swedish värd (“worth”), Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌸 (wairþ, “worth, value”), Welsh gwerth (“worth, value”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈwɜːθ/
- British English: /ˈwɜːθ/