Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

preordained

/pɹˌiɔɹdˈeɪnd/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.23 in modern English

Syllables: pre-or-dained
IPA: /pɹˌiɔɹdˈeɪnd/

15

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

simple past and past participle of preordain

adj

determined in advance; predestined

Example Sentences

"The difficulty of each puzzle would increase as the number of miners increased, which would keep production to one block of transactions roughly every 10 minutes. In addition, the size of each block bounty would halve every 210,000 blocks—first from 50 bitcoins to 25, then from 25 to 12.5, and so on. Around the year 2140, the currency would reach its preordained limit of 21 million bitcoins."

Derived Forms

unpreordained

Synonyms

fateful foreordained bashert destined doomed fated fatidic predestined predevote preordained weird

Rhymes With

remained explained trained obtained gained contained self-contained maintained sustained retained complained detained

Questions

How do you pronounce preordained?: The recorded pronunciation is /pɹˌiɔɹdˈeɪnd/.
What does preordained mean?: simple past and past participle of preordain

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