incertain
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "...or to be worse then worst Of those, that lawlesse and incertaine thought, Imagine howling, 'tis too horrible."
- "And again, that as these acquisitions are in themselves generally worthless, so are the means to attain them not only base and infamous, but at best incertain, and always full of danger."
Etymology
From Middle English incertayne, borrowed from Middle French incertain, derived in the 14th c. from certain, after Latin incertus (“uncertain”). By surface analysis, in- + certain.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: incertayne, incertain, incertus
Usage
Inflected Forms
more incertain (comparative)
most incertain (superlative)
incertaine (alternative)