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somnifacient

/ˌsɑm.nəˈfeɪ.ʃənt/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
som-ni-fa-cient
IPA
/ˌsɑm.nəˈfeɪ.ʃənt/
19
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Inducing or causing sleep.

noun

Any pharmaceutical product that causes sleep.

Etymology

From Latin somnus (“sleep”) + facio (“to make”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

somnifacients (plural)

Questions

How do you pronounce somnifacient?
The recorded pronunciation is /ˌsɑm.nəˈfeɪ.ʃənt/.
What does somnifacient mean?
Inducing or causing sleep.
Where does somnifacient come from?
It is traced to Latin.

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