Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

defailment

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: de-fail-ment
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Obsolete

Example Sentences

"True it is Argall lost his voyage, but we revictualled him, and sent him for England, with a true relation of the causes of our defailments [...]."

Etymology

From French défaillement.

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

defailments (plural)

Questions

What does defailment mean?: Failure.
Where does defailment come from?: From French défaillement.

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