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horrour

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
hor-rour
IPA
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Obsolete spelling of horror.

Obsolete

Etymology

From Middle English horrour, from Old French horrour, from Latin horror (“a bristling, a shaking, trembling as with cold or fear, terror”), from horrere (“to bristle, shake, be terrified”). Displaced native Old English ōga.

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Inflected Forms

horrours (plural)

Questions

What does horrour mean?
Obsolete spelling of horror.
Where does horrour come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

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