forty-second cousin
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.98 in modern English
28
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
4
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "And also my step-sister, my niece, my fourth cousin, my thirty-third cousin, my forty-second cousin, my great-aunt, my grandmother, my widowed sister-in-law-and next week she will be my wife."
- ""Is he a relation of ours, too, Cousin Jimmy?" "Forty-second cousin. Way back he had a cousin of Mary Shipley's for a great-something. […]"
- "So Jessie's my second cousin once removed or forty-second cousin or something. Anyway, we're kind-of related."