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viaticals

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
vi-at-i-cals
IPA
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Life insurance policies which are sold at a discount to the face amount, or death benefit, of people who have been medically determined to have life expectancies of less than two years.

Etymology

From Latin viaticum (“provisions for a long journey”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

Frequently Paired Words

viatical

Questions

What does viaticals mean?
Life insurance policies which are sold at a discount to the face amount, or death benefit, of people who have been medically determined to have life expectancies of less than two years.
Where does viaticals come from?
It is traced to Latin.

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