endemically
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.23 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Malaria occurs endemically, epidemically, pandemically, or sporadically."
- "[Gorbachev] did not champion perestroika and glasnost alone; much of the nomenklatura had decided that the Soviet economic and social model was dysfunctional, corrupt and endemically inefficient and had to change."
Etymology
Etymology tree English endemic Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al Middle English -ly Middle English -ally English -ally English endemically From endemic + -ally.
Inflected Forms
more endemically (comparative)
most endemically (superlative)