octavo
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.31 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "He was also much of a politician; too much, perhaps, for his station. There fell lately into my hands, in London, a collection he had made of all the principal pamphlets, relating to public affairs, from 1641 to 1717; many of the volumes are wanting as appears by the numbering, but there still remain eight volumes in folio, and twenty-four in quarto and in octavo."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: octavo