exigency
/ˈɛɡzəd͡ʒənsi/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.83 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "My business is with you, and you only. You should not have undertaken your office, unless prepared for its various exigencies."
- "No ordinary man could have escaped those frightful claws when Numa sprang from so short a distance, but Tarzan was no ordinary man. From earliest childhood his muscles had been trained by the fierce exigencies of his existence to act with the rapidity of thought."
- "[...] but these details I am compelled by exigencies of space to hold over until next month."
Etymology
From Middle French exigence, from Late Latin exigentia (“urgency”) (from exigēns + -ia), from exigere (“to demand”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈɛɡzəd͡ʒənsi/
- British English: /ˈɛksɪd͡ʒənsi/