Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

imbricately

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: im-bri-cate-ly
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

In an imbricate manner.

Example Sentences

"The area of each specimen was lased imbricately twice with a uniformly slow speed at a 90-degree angle to the surface and at a distance of 1 mm."

Etymology

From imbricate + -ly.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: imbricate

Inflected Forms

more imbricately (comparative) most imbricately (superlative)

Questions

What does imbricately mean?: In an imbricate manner.
Where does imbricately come from?: From imbricate + -ly.

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