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pulchrous

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
pul-chrous
IPA
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

beautiful

Obsolete

Etymology

From Latin pulchrum (“beautiful”) + -ous.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

more pulchrous (comparative) most pulchrous (superlative)

Frequently Paired Words

pulchritude

Questions

What does pulchrous mean?
beautiful
Where does pulchrous come from?
It is traced to Latin.

How to pronounce pulchrous

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