officialdom
/əˈfɪ.ʃəl.dəm/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.28 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "[Magazine staffer:] In the bag may be the next chief—a wedding to one of officialdom's family will assure certainty."
- "Nevertheless Armenian leaders at first retained faith in the reform agenda of the Porte, ascribing their ills to incompetent officialdom and Kurdish lawlessness."
- "An enormous amount of off-book money sloshes around Chinese business and officialdom, and some of it runs into handbags."
- "This was largely due to its widespread use in the army and officialdom in the Ottoman Empire."
Etymology
Etymology tree English official Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *dʰóh₁mos Proto-Germanic *dōmaz Proto-Germanic *-dōmaz Proto-West Germanic *-dōm Old English -dōm Middle English -dom English -dom English officialdom From official + -dom.