Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

dictionnary

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: dic-tio-n-nary
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Obsolete spelling of dictionary.

Obsolete

noun

Misspelling of dictionary.

Example Sentences

"I have no modern dictionnary on hand. But I used to understand ethnocide as the volontary destruction of a culture."
"I'd expect the first one to be faster, since the lookup of a key in a dictionnary is O(1), and insertion is a dictionnary is roughly O(1) too, whereas bisect_left is O(log(N)), and inserting in the middle of a list is O(N)."
"So I export my dictionnary from my "old" application and I obtain them in a format *.LEX that is recognized on my computer like an "Indesign Dictionnary File""

Etymology

As a mistake of second-language speakers, primarily from French dictionnaire.

Origin

Source language: French

Word Breakdown

Root: dictionnaire

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

dictionnaries (plural)

Questions

What does dictionnary mean?: Obsolete spelling of dictionary.
Where does dictionnary come from?: It is traced to French.

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