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congreve match

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.10 in modern English

Syllables
con-greve -match
IPA
26
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Synonym of phosphorus match, a strike-anywhere friction match.

Etymology

From German Congreve, after William Congreve, British rocket pioneer and administrator of the Imperial Continental Gas Association during the 1820s.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

Congreve matches (plural)

Synonyms

phosphorus match

Questions

What does congreve match mean?
Synonym of phosphorus match, a strike-anywhere friction match.
Where does congreve match come from?
It is traced to German.

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