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hippopotamic

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
hip-popotam-ic
IPA
25
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of or relating to a hippopotamus.

Etymology

From hippopotamus + -ic.

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

more hippopotamic (comparative) most hippopotamic (superlative)

Questions

What does hippopotamic mean?
Of or relating to a hippopotamus.
Where does hippopotamic come from?
From hippopotamus + -ic.

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