Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

maleskan

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: maleskan
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

1

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of or pertaining to the style or tenure of New York Times crossword puzzle editor Eugene Maleska, thought now to feature needless obscurity and difficulty.

Example Sentences

"I was lulled into a false sense of confidence in the northeast, continued my way down the grid, and found that I kept stopping to marvel at the Things That Seemed Eerily Maleskan."
"It launched at exactly the right time to capture the younger generation of puzzlemakers and solvers, the ones who felt that the clue for OREO should be "Kind of cookie" rather than the Maleskan “Mountain: prefix" (as in the "famous" oreortyx, the mountain quail)."
"A typical Maleskan stepquote's theme answer might read: THEFA/ASHIO/ONWEAR/RSOUTMOREAPPA/ARELTH/HANTH/HEMAN: " The fashion wears out more apparel than the man.""

Etymology

From Maleska + -n.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: Maleska

Inflected Forms

more Maleskan (comparative) most Maleskan (superlative)

Frequently Paired Words

Shortzian

Questions

What does maleskan mean?: Of or pertaining to the style or tenure of New York Times crossword puzzle editor Eugene Maleska, thought now to feature needless obscurity and difficulty.
Where does maleskan come from?: From Maleska + -n.

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