ingenuity
/ˌɪnd͡ʒəˈn(j)uːəti/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.23 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
5
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The pyramids demonstrate the ingenuity of the ancient Egyptians."
- "Poverty is the mother of ingenuity."
- "Ingenuity is one of the characteristics of a beaver."
- "Half the ingenuity lavished on news—by news we mean the topics of the day as connected with their own circle—half this ingenuity would set up a whole Society of Antiquaries, and immortalise at least a dozen of them."
- "The heavy freight traffic which shares the double line between Paddington and Wolverhampton with the passenger traffic has taxed the ingenuity of the timetable planners."
- "Virility is sustained, preserved, even recaptured, by man's ingenuities, by exotic foods and drinks, by rare herbal compounds, by fantastical manipulations, goetic periapts."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: ingenuitās