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rainworm

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
rain-worm
IPA
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An earthworm.

Etymology

From Middle English [Term?], from Old English reġnwyrm, from Proto-Germanic [Term?]. Analysable as rain + worm, because the worm has the habit of surfacing on top of the saturated soil after rainfall. Cognate with Dutch regenworm, Old High German reganwurm, whence German Regenwurm.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

rainworms (plural)

Questions

What does rainworm mean?
An earthworm.
Where does rainworm come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

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