counterexpectational
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
33
Scrabble Score
20
Letters
7
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
That goes against expectations; unexpected.
Example Sentences
- "For example, in Saramaccan, property items can be reduplicated to encode counterexpectational semantics."
Etymology
From counter- + expectational.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more counterexpectational (comparative)
most counterexpectational (superlative)