Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

nerdery

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.27 in modern English

Syllables: nerdery
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

1

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Nerdish behaviour or attitudes.

Informal; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"'Stamps were made for computers,' he told me, 'because they look beautiful when scanned and enlarged, it's so easy to catalogue and trade them, and the nerdery of stamps and the early nerdery of computers were made for each other. […]"
"I've occasionally dreamed ideas for types of music. One was called "reality" score and it involved the use of samples. Every sound was sampled from a momentous historical recording-the snare drum was a recording of the shot that killed President Kennedy, and so on. I still think this could be great, but I don't have the necessary persistence and nerdery to actually get it done."

Etymology

From nerd + -ery.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: nerd

Usage

Synonyms

geekery

Questions

What does nerdery mean?: Nerdish behaviour or attitudes.
Where does nerdery come from?: From nerd + -ery.

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