Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

highish

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: high-ish
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Example Sentences

"Reading Barron, though, I realized that part of the reason his stories leave me cold is that they assume, as too much genre fiction does, a highish level of reader credulity, and I resent it."

Etymology

From high + -ish.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: high

Inflected Forms

more highish (comparative) most highish (superlative)

Questions

What does highish mean?: Somewhat high.
Where does highish come from?: From high + -ish.

How to pronounce highish

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