Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

pottermaniac

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: pot-ter-ma-ni-ac
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

5

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

One who loves the Harry Potter series of books and films.

Example Sentences

"J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Bloomsbury; 636 pages) would have sold millions of copies had its publishers simply dumped them in bookstores, unannounced, and then got out of the way as word of mouth spread among stampeding Pottermaniacs."
"The launch of the fifth book, for instance, involved only one personal appearance, when JKR read extracts to 4,000 carefully selected Pottermaniacs in the Albert Hall."
"If you are a Pottermaniac, this is the month for you. "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" opens today, and on July 21 the seventh and final Potter tome lands with a thud at your local bookstore."

Etymology

From Potter + -maniac.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: Potter

Inflected Forms

Pottermaniacs (plural)

Synonyms

Potterhead Potterholic Potterite Potterphile

Rhymes With

maniac brainiac nymphomaniac megalomaniac egomaniac pyromaniac kleptomaniac dipsomaniac monomaniac logomaniac bibliomaniac anthomaniac

Questions

What does pottermaniac mean?: One who loves the Harry Potter series of books and films.
Where does pottermaniac come from?: From Potter + -maniac.

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