kamut

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.33 in modern English

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"If you hear the name Kamut get excited. It's wheat. Yes, there are thousands of wheats, all members of the triticum family, but Kamut is different. It's 4,000 years old."

Taken from kamut, a transcription found in E. A. Wallis Budge's dictionary (where it was translated as "wheat") of Egyptian kꜣmwtt (“ear of barley”), in hieroglyphic form: k-A-m-w-t:t-M2:Z2-

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