Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

blacklettered

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: black-let-tered
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Written in black letter.

Example Sentences

"In the summer before Nick's senior year of high school, when Nick no longer left a three o'clock but stayed until the end of the working day, his father wrote the boy's name on a strip of masking tape and stuck it on the office door, right under his own blacklettered name."

Etymology

From black + lettered.

Questions

What does blacklettered mean?: Written in black letter.
Where does blacklettered come from?: From black + lettered.

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