Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

explicature

/ɛkˈsplɪkət͡ʃɚ/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ex-pli-ca-ture
IPA: /ɛkˈsplɪkət͡ʃɚ/

22

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Something explicitly expressed in an utterance, as opposed to what is implicit.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"In relevance theory terms, he must construct a hypothesis about the explicit content of Ally's utterance;that is, he mustrely upon both the words she uses in this utterance and an inferencing process to construct an explicature."
"If the speaker was your flat-mate and you had a habit of borrowing her property without permission, she might be asking you if you'd 'borrowed' the book she owned (explicature) and the utterance might be taken as a demand for its return."

Etymology

From explicate + -ure, after implicature.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: explicate

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ɛkˈsplɪkət͡ʃɚ/
British English: /ɛkˈsplɪkətʃə/

Usage

Inflected Forms

explicatures (plural)

Questions

How do you pronounce explicature?: The recorded pronunciation is /ɛkˈsplɪkət͡ʃɚ/.
What does explicature mean?: Something explicitly expressed in an utterance, as opposed to what is implicit.
Where does explicature come from?: From explicate + -ure, after implicature.

How to pronounce explicature

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