accessit
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.01 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An honorable mention in an academic contest.
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Italic *kezdō Latin cēdō Latin accēdō Latin -it Latin accessitlbor. English accessit Learned borrowing from Latin accessit (“he came near”), from accēdō (“approach”) + -it.