exist
/ɪɡˈzɪst/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.73 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Cognitive dissonance exists when a person possesses two cognitions, one of which is contradictory to the other"
- "Various relationships may exist between character and glyph: […]"
- "[…], regardless of whether those characters also existed in other character encoding standards."
- "[…], which will be treated either as an update of the existing character encoding or as a completely new character encoding."
- "While you see some of our exploration on camera, I also spent many happy hours between shoots with Chris Nix, digging out dozens of wonderful plans, maps and drawings of projects that I never knew existed, and some that never did exist."
Etymology
From French exister, from Latin existō, exsistō (“I am, I exist, appear, arise”), from ex (“out”) + sistere (“to set, place”) (related to stare (“to stand, to be stood”)), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *stísteh₂ti, from the root *steh₂- (“stand”); see stand. Compare assist, consist, desist, insist, persist, resist. Cognate with Spanish existir, French exister, Italian esistere, German existieren.
Origin
- Source language: French
Word Breakdown
Usage
Inflected Forms
exists (present, singular)
existing (participle, present)
existed (participle, past)
existed (past)
no-table-tags (table tags)
glossary (inflection template)
existed (first person, past)
existest (archaic, present)
existed (past, second person)
existedst (archaic, past)
existeth (archaic, present)
existed (past, singular)