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mousefall

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
mouse-fall
IPA
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A mousetrap.

Etymology

From Middle English mousfalle, from Old English mūsfealle (“mousetrap”), from Proto-West Germanic *mūsfallā (“mousetrap”), equivalent to mouse + fall. Cognate with Scots mousfall (“mousetrap”), Saterland Frisian Muusefalle (“mousetrap”), West Frisian mûzefalle (“mousetrap”), Dutch muizenval (“mousetrap”), German Low German Muusfall, Muusfalle (“mousetrap”), German Mausfalle, Mausefalle (“mousetrap”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: mousfalle, mūsfealle, *mūsfallā

Inflected Forms

mousefalls (plural)

Questions

What does mousefall mean?
A mousetrap.
Where does mousefall come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

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