plethory
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "[T]he appetite falls down like a horseleech, when it is ready to burst with putrefaction and an unwholesome plethory […]."
- "The disease of the state is a plethory, / Who so fit to reduce it as I?"
- "‘It is, indeed, owing to a plethory of matter that his style is so faulty.’"
Etymology
Alteration of Latin plethora after + -y.
Origin
- Source language: Latin