Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

inceptisol

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
in-cep-ti-sol
IPA
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A kind of freely-draining soil that forms quickly through alteration of parent material and has no accumulation of clays, iron oxide, aluminium oxide or organic matter.

Etymology

From Latin inceptum + -i- + -sol

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What does inceptisol mean?
A kind of freely-draining soil that forms quickly through alteration of parent material and has no accumulation of clays, iron oxide, aluminium oxide or organic matter.
Where does inceptisol come from?
It is traced to Latin.

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