Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

primmer

/ˈpɹɪm.ɚ/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: prim-mer
IPA: /ˈpɹɪm.ɚ/

13

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

comparative form of prim: more prim

noun

Obsolete form of primer (“children's teaching book”).

Obsolete

name

Example Sentences

"[…] he sat daily in the common school of the village, mending pens, criticizing blotted copy-books, fingering greasy slates, and thumbing dog-eared primmers."
"The old seem as books, the young as the primmers, / The "good as the righteous," the "bad as the sinners;" […]"

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˈpɹɪm.ɚ/
British English: /ˈpɹɪm.ə/

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

primmers (plural)

Homonyms

primer

Rhymes With

swimmer simmer zimmer glimmer shimmer slimmer trimmer dimmer rimmer timur skimmer schwimmer

Questions

How do you pronounce primmer?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈpɹɪm.ɚ/.
What does primmer mean?: comparative form of prim: more prim

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