Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

occluse

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: oc-cluse
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Obsolete

Example Sentences

"[it] gives their Speech [German] a different Tang from ours: to soften the Occluse Gingival Consonants, by a kind of Mixture or ſoft addition of a Spirital in the ſame Articulation, to a Vocal producing the Vowel"

Etymology

From Latin occlusus. See occlude.

Usage

Obsolete

Derived Forms

occlusor

Questions

What does occluse mean?: shut; closed
Where does occluse come from?: From Latin occlusus. See occlude.

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