Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

chefdom

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: chef-dom
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Collectively, all chefs.

Uncountable

noun

The state of being a chef.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Still they keep coming, perhaps spurred on by the celebrity status that chefdom has achieved in the past decade."

Etymology

From chef + -dom. Piecewise doublet of chiefdom.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: chef

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does chefdom mean?: Collectively, all chefs.
Where does chefdom come from?: From chef + -dom. Piecewise doublet of chiefdom.

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