irrupt
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
Misspelling of erupt.
Example Sentences
- "Above all, though, I look back into a modernity where the animation of the object world, the voice of things, or the indistinction of object and subject does not constitute a general (or generalizable, theorizable) condition but irrupts as a discrete event, the aesthetic effects of which range from the uncanny to the sublime."
Etymology
From Latin irruptus, past participle of irrumpō.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *Hrewp-, irruptus