impute
/ɪmˈpjut/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.92 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The teacher imputed the student's failure to his nervousness."
- "Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault, / If mem’ry o’er their tomb no trophies raise, / Where thro’ the long-drawn isle and fretted vault, / The pealing anthem swells the note of praise."
- "I impute my improvement more to the kind attentions of Lord Allerton, who is my companion still, and will not, I think, leave me, than to the sea air."
- "He was vain, sensual, frivolous, profuse, improvident. One vice of a darker shade was imputed to him, envy."
- "We ascribe or impute motives to others and avow them or confess to them in ourselves."
- "To use the technical language of theologians, God through his grace "imputes" the merits of the crucified and risen Christ to a fallen human being who remains without inherent merit, and who without this "imputation" would not be "made" righteous at all."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɪmˈpjut/
- British English: /ɪmˈpjuːt/