compt
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.08 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
noun
Example Sentences
- "who is not much more carefull of the grace of his head, than of his health? who maketh not more account to be compt, than to be honest?"
- "A compt, accomplished prince."
- "And my wife will be jocund, feat, compt, neat, quaint, dainty, trim, tricked up, brisk, smirk, and smug, […]"
- "Your servants ever have theirs,/Themselves and what is theirs, in compt, /To make their audit at your highness' pleasure, /Still to return your own."
- "it would be difficult for a youth of his age to follow the expositions of a practical lawyer, concerning actions of compt and reckoning, and of multiple-poindings, and adjudication and wadsets, proper and improper, and poindings of the ground and declarations of expiry of the legal."
- "For some were warded in the Pittie-vault, some set caution to remove from the town, after they had compted and reckoned for their tavernry with their mistresses; […]"
Etymology
Usage
Inflected Forms
more compt (comparative)
most compt (superlative)
compts (present, singular)
compting (participle, present)
compted (participle, past)
compted (past)
compts (plural)
Derived Forms
Frequently Paired Words
compt.