Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

groundward

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ground-ward
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

Towards the ground.

Example Sentences

"That night he watched as an airplane carrying Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana plunged groundward in flames."

Etymology

From ground + -ward.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: ground

Questions

What does groundward mean?: Towards the ground.
Where does groundward come from?: From ground + -ward.

How to pronounce groundward

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