Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

pygmyism

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: pygmy-ism
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The phenotype of endemically short stature exhibited by members of the pygmy peoples.

Uncountable

noun

Uncountable

Etymology

From pygmy + -ism.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: pygmy

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does pygmyism mean?: The phenotype of endemically short stature exhibited by members of the pygmy peoples.
Where does pygmyism come from?: From pygmy + -ism.

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