write
/ɹəɪt/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.03 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To form letters, words or symbols on a surface in order to communicate.
Example Sentences
- "The pupil wrote his name on the paper."
- "Your son has been writing on the wall."
- "My uncle writes newspaper articles for The Herald."
- "Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language[…]; his clerks, however, understood him very well. If he had written a love letter, or a farce, or a ballade, or a story, no one, either clerks, or friends, or compositors, would have understood anything but a word here and a word there."
- "Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid of all facility and try to make instead of describe, writing had been wonderful to do. But it was very difficult, and I did not know how I would ever write anything as long as a novel. It often took me a full morning of work to write a paragraph."
- "Please write to me when you get there."
Etymology
From Middle English writen, from Old English wrītan, from Proto-West Germanic *wrītan, from Proto-Germanic *wrītaną (“to carve, write”), from Proto-Indo-European *wrey- (“to rip, tear”). Cognate with West Frisian write (“to wear by rubbing, rip, tear”), Dutch wrijten (“to argue, quarrel”), Middle Low German wrîten (“to scratch, draw, write”) (> Low German wrieten, rieten (“to tear, split”)), German reißen (“to tear, rip”), Norwegian rita (“to rough-sketch, carve, write”), Swedish rita (“to draw, design, delineate, model”), Icelandic ríta, rita (“to inscribe, sketch, write”), German ritzen (“to carve, scratch”), Proto-Slavic *ryti (“to carve, engrave, dig”), Polish ryć (“to engrave, dig”), Czech rýt (“to engrave, dig”). See also rit and rat.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɹəɪt/
- British English: [ɹaɪt]
Usage
Inflected Forms
writes (present, singular)
writing (participle, present)
wrote (past)
writ (archaic, past)
written (participle, past)
writ (archaic, participle)
ywriten (obsolete, participle)
no-table-tags (table tags)
glossary (inflection template)
wrote (first person, past)
writest (archaic, present)
wrote (past, second person)