Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

periculous

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: per-icu-lous
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

dangerous, hazardous, perilous

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin periculosus (“dangerous, hazardous, perilous”). Doublet of perilous.

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: periculosus

Inflected Forms

more periculous (comparative) most periculous (superlative)

Questions

What does periculous mean?: dangerous, hazardous, perilous
Where does periculous come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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