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saic

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.32 in modern English

Syllables
sa-ic
IPA
6
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

Initialism of Science Applications International Corporation, a defense contractor, one of the largest employee-owned companies in the USA.

noun

A kind of ketch heavily used in the Black Sea, Tisa, Danube and Sava

Etymology

From French saïque, from Italian saicca, from Ottoman Turkish شایقه (şayka), from Bulgarian ша́йка (šájka) (a variant of Bulgarian ча́йка (čájka)), from Proto-Slavic *čajьka. Doublet of Czajka.

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: saïque, saicca, شایقه, ша́йка, *čajьka

Inflected Forms

saics (plural) saick (alternative, obsolete)

Questions

What does saic mean?
Initialism of Science Applications International Corporation, a defense contractor, one of the largest employee-owned companies in the USA.
Where does saic come from?
It is traced to French.

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