Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

orthoepically

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: or-thoepi-cal-ly
IPA

23

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

In an orthoepical manner: pronounced correctly or in accordance with standard usage.

Example Sentences

"While if they attempt the impossible feat of placing before our eyes the every-day life of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, they make them speak with the accent of the educated nineteenth-century Londoner; instead of showing us, orthoepically, that their speech was akin to that of the modern Irish provincialist, and akin also to that of the existing provincialist in the district delineated —whether Warwickshire or Middlesex."

Etymology

From orthoepical + -ly.

Questions

What does orthoepically mean?: In an orthoepical manner: pronounced correctly or in accordance with standard usage.
Where does orthoepically come from?: From orthoepical + -ly.

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