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phosphoriferous

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
phos-pho-rif-er-ous
IPA
28
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

containing, or yielding phosphorus

Etymology

From phosphor + -i- + -ferous.

Inflected Forms

more phosphoriferous (comparative) most phosphoriferous (superlative)

Rhymes With

carboniferous fossiliferous cruciferous seminiferous odoriferous splendiferous luminiferous metalliferous floriferous auriferous stoloniferous calciferous

Questions

What does phosphoriferous mean?
containing, or yielding phosphorus
Where does phosphoriferous come from?
From phosphor + -i- + -ferous.

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