Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

lucigen

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: lu-ci-gen
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A kind of oil lamp using compressed air.

Etymology

Obsolete trade name, from Latin lūx (“light”) + -gen.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: gen

Inflected Forms

lucigens (plural)

Questions

What does lucigen mean?: A kind of oil lamp using compressed air.
Where does lucigen come from?: Obsolete trade name, from Latin lūx (“light”) + -gen.

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