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prairial

/pɹɛɹˈjɑl/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.10 in modern English

Syllables
prairi-al
IPA
/pɹɛɹˈjɑl/
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

The ninth month of the French Republican Calendar, from May 20 or 21 to June 18 or 19.

Etymology

Borrowed from French prairial, from prairie (“meadow, prairie, pasture”) + -al.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Regional Pronunciation

  • American English: /pɹɛɹˈjɑl/
  • British English: /ˈpɹɛːɹɪ.əl/

Inflected Forms

Prairials (plural)

Rhymes With

aerial ariel secretarial areal malarial arial antimalarial notarial filarial urticarial gharial commentarial

Questions

How do you pronounce prairial?
The recorded pronunciation is /pɹɛɹˈjɑl/.
What does prairial mean?
The ninth month of the French Republican Calendar, from May 20 or 21 to June 18 or 19.
Where does prairial come from?
It is traced to French.

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