Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

discontiguous

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: dis-con-tigu-ous
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Example Sentences

"A discontiguous network comprises two major networks."

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ ▲ Proto-Indo-European *trísinflu. Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is- Proto-Italic *dis- Latin dis- Old French des-bor. ▲ Latin dis-bor. Middle English dis- English dis- English contiguous English discontiguous From dis- + contiguous.

Inflected Forms

more discontiguous (comparative) most discontiguous (superlative)

Derived Forms

discontiguousness

Synonyms

fragmented noncontiguous

Questions

What does discontiguous mean?: Not contiguous
Where does discontiguous come from?: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ ▲ Proto-Indo-European *trísinflu. Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is- Proto-Italic *dis- Latin dis- Old French des-bor. ▲ Latin dis-bor. Middle English dis- English dis- English contiguous English discontiguous From dis- + contiguous.

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