ceriph
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "It must be remarked, that the small Greek letter never admits of what letter-founders call a ceriph, or line across the terminations, as the Roman."
- "At one period, in imitation probably of the celebrated Didot, a practice prevailed of cutting the ceriphs and fine strokes of types to an excessive degree of sharpness."
- "CERIPH. The fine lines, and the cross strokes at the tops and bottoms of letters, are termed by the letter founders ceriphs."
- "This article advises, besides a standard of width, one of body and one of the depth of face—the last I take as meaning the distance from the top ceriph of say the lower case "m" to the bottom ceriph of the same letter."