litten

/lˈɪtən/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.98 in modern English

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verb

Archaic

name

"They’ve been inside the earth, too—there are openings which human beings know nothing of—some of them in these very Vermont hills—and great worlds of unknown life down there; blue-litten K’n-yan, red-litten Yoth, and black, lightless N’kai."

Pseudo-archaic formation from lit + -en.

Littens (plural)

moonlitten starlitten twilitten unlitten

litton

written britain gettin' kitten bitten rewritten unwritten smitten britton briton britten witten

Questions

How do you pronounce litten?

The recorded pronunciation is /lˈɪtən/.

What does litten mean?

past participle of light

Where does litten come from?

Pseudo-archaic formation from lit + -en.

How to pronounce litten

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