Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

incommodity

/ɪn.kəˈmɑ.də.ti/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: in-com-mod-i-ty
IPA: /ɪn.kəˈmɑ.də.ti/

21

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

5

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

inconvenience; trouble; annoyance; disadvantage

Archaic; Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"a great incommodity to the body"
"buried him under a bulk of incommodities"
"To the first I answered, I had been a true man for a long season, and therefore it could not be expected that I should now cast in my lot with thieves. Then they demanded what I would say to the second. So I told them that the place from whence I came, had I not found incommodity there, I had not forsaken it at all; but finding it altogether unsuitable to me, and very unprofitable for me, I forsook it for this way."

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin incommoditās. Compare French incommodité. See incommodious.

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ɪn.kəˈmɑ.də.ti/
British English: /ɪn.kəˈmɒ.dɪ.ti/

Usage

Inflected Forms

incommodities (plural)

Rhymes With

commodity oddity

Questions

How do you pronounce incommodity?: The recorded pronunciation is /ɪn.kəˈmɑ.də.ti/.
What does incommodity mean?: inconvenience; trouble; annoyance; disadvantage
Where does incommodity come from?: Borrowed from Latin incommoditās. Compare French incommodité. See incommodious.

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