Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

oopart

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: oopart
IPA

8

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

1

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An object found in a very unusual or apparently impossible archaeological context (like the Coso sparkplug found in an allegedly 500,000-year-old geode) which would challenge conventional historiography and chronology if authentic.

Example Sentences

""Out-Of-Place-Artifacts." These ooparts are artifacts or objects that archeologists have found in digging into ancient civilizations and that appear to be out-of-place […]"
"In many cases, the technical sophistication of the ooparts extends far beyond the inventive capabilities of the ancient peoples among whose remains they were discovered."

Etymology

Abbreviation of "out of place artifact".

Inflected Forms

ooparts (plural) OOPA (alternative)

Questions

What does oopart mean?: An object found in a very unusual or apparently impossible archaeological context (like the Coso sparkplug found in an allegedly 500,000-year-old geode) which would challenge conventional historiography and chronology if authentic.
Where does oopart come from?: Abbreviation of "out of place artifact".

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