Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

persister

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: per-sis-ter
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Something that persists

noun

Any organism that survives a period of extreme conditions, such as winter or is tolerant of normal antibiotics

Etymology

From persist + -er.

Inflected Forms

persisters (plural)

Derived Forms

antipersister

Questions

What does persister mean?: Something that persists
Where does persister come from?: From persist + -er.

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