Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

preprogram

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: pre-pro-gram
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To program something in advance.

Transitive verb

verb

To predispose to certain thoughts or behaviours.

Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"hard-wired behavior, or behavior that a dog's genetics have preprogrammed him to do"
"But while Lois getting it that the entire cottage was a no-go area might mean that she was preprogrammed by thousands of years of dragons raising their dragonlets in dens, I wondered if that was all it was."

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i? Proto-Italic *prai Proto-Italic *prai- Latin prae-lbor. Middle English pre- English pre- English program English preprogram From pre- + program.

Usage

Transitive verb

Inflected Forms

preprograms (present, singular) preprogramming (participle, present) preprograming (participle, present) preprogrammed (participle, past) preprogrammed (past) preprogramed (participle, past) preprogramed (past, rare) preprogramme (alternative)

Questions

What does preprogram mean?: To program something in advance.
Where does preprogram come from?: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i? Proto-Italic *prai Proto-Italic *prai- Latin prae-lbor. Middle English pre- English pre- English program English preprogram From pre- + program.

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