Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

odden

/ˈɑdən/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.44 in modern English

Syllables: odd-en
IPA: /ˈɑdən/

7

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

2

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To make or become odd (all senses)

Example Sentences

"It was that he had to talk my mind without me there to odden up his thoughts."
"The light still shines, even though the vessel be oddened, he had remarked once, and Emma, laughing, had kissed his bone-thick, fever-warm brow."
"I cried to be fallen in the love, but in the autumn year of my young age, the villagers and Mama filtered me from the home and the village, for oddening the love."
"I admit to feeling odd not by my self-infliction; rather, I feel “oddened” by White teacher candidates like this who unintentionally (or intentionally) misplace a racialized label on me as if I am “a commodity as spectacle,” […]"

Etymology

From odd + -en (verbal ending).

Inflected Forms

oddens (present, singular) oddening (participle, present) oddened (participle, past) oddened (past)

Rhymes With

downtrodden trodden sodden godden rodden coloradan

Questions

How do you pronounce odden?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈɑdən/.
What does odden mean?: To make or become odd (all senses)
Where does odden come from?: From odd + -en (verbal ending).

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