Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

fossie

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
fos-sie
IPA
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An advocate of free open source software.

Informal

Etymology

From FOSS + -ie.

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

FOSSies (plural)

Questions

What does fossie mean?
An advocate of free open source software.
Where does fossie come from?
From FOSS + -ie.

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