fiction
/ˈfɪkʃən/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.44 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "I am a great reader of fiction."
- "the fiction section of the library"
- "The company’s accounts contained a number of blatant fictions."
- "The butler’s account of the crime was pure fiction."
- "separate the fact from the fiction"
- "[…] in view of the facts—and some fictions—recently circulated in this country about the general performance of high-powered diesel-hydraulics of B.R., […]."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-né- Proto-Indo-European *dʰinéǵʰti Proto-Italic *θingō Proto-Italic *fingōder. Latin fingō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin fictiōder. Old French ficcionbor. Middle English ficcioun English fiction From Middle English ficcioun, from Old French ficcion (“dissimulation, ruse, invention”), from Latin fictiō (“a making, fashioning, a feigning, a rhetorical or legal fiction”), from fingō (“to form, mold, shape, devise, feign”). Displaced native Old English lēasspell (literally “false story”); see feign, feint, figment.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: ficcioun, ficcion, fictiō