expeller
/ɪkˈspɛlɚ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.40 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Someone or something that expels.
noun
Someone or something that expels.
Example Sentences
- "The latter, for example, are overheard dismissing the former as mere “quantoids”—as if quantitative methods turn those who deploy them into machinelike expellers of numeric waste."
Etymology
Etymology tree English expel Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English expeller From expel + -er.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɪkˈspɛlɚ/
- British English: /ɪkˈspɛlə/