Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

ladderlike

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: lad-der-like
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Resembling a ladder (device used for climbing).

Example Sentences

"How strange and yet how good it was to thread those narrow passages once more! Their suffocating constriction and padded, ladderlike steps summoned up a thousand memories of gambades and trysts: coursing the white wolves, scourging the prisoners of the antechamber, reencountering Oringa."
"The fastest moving components of capsular polysaccharides can usually be separated as distinct bands in a ladderlike pattern by gel electrophoresis..."

Etymology

From ladder + -like.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: ladder

Inflected Forms

more ladderlike (comparative) most ladderlike (superlative)

Questions

What does ladderlike mean?: Resembling a ladder (device used for climbing).
Where does ladderlike come from?: From ladder + -like.

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