intricacy
/ˈɪn.tɹɪ.kə.si/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.33 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "the intricacy of a knot"
- "the intricacy of accounts"
- "the intricacy of a cause in controversy"
- "The breadth of Creation makes it impossible for us to step back far enough to see the story that the tapestry tells; the intricacy of it, from the macro to the micro to the subatomic, makes it impossible for us to comprehend the megatrillions of connections between the threads in just one small fragment of the whole."
- "There are many intricacies in the plot of this novel."
- "With the most patient assiduity he peered into the intricacies of unrevealed structure. No object was too minute, none too large, for his attention."
Etymology
From intric(ate) + -acy.