exactitude
/ɪɡˈzæktɪt(j)uːd/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.95 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "[W]hen making a passage from one feeding-ground to another, the sperm whales, guided by some infallible instinct—say, rather, secret intelligence from the Deity—mostly swim in veins, as they are called; continuing their way along a given ocean-line with such undeviating exactitude, that no ship ever sailed her course, by any chart, with one tithe of such marvellous precision."
- "He paced stiffly, looking with extreme exactitude at Lingard's face; looking neither to the right nor to the left but at the face only, as if there was nothing in the world but those features familiar and dreaded; […]"
- "In Newspeak, euphony outweighed every consideration other than exactitude of meaning."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: French
Word Breakdown
- Root: exactitude, exactus