readdress
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.37 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Her latest paper readdresses some old problems in philosophy."
- "“Evenin', Commander,” Clarke said with mock cheerfulness. “How's it goin'?” Gadsby ignored this overture, turned away, and readdressed himself to his drink."
- "John doesn't live there any more. You'd better readdress that parcel."
- "We can use this relocator code ourselves to readdress the DOS to the memory level that we want."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Old French a- Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ ▲ Proto-Indo-European *trísinflu. Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is- Proto-Italic *dis- Latin dīs- Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵtós Proto-Italic *rektos Latin rēctus Latin dīrēctus Proto-Indo-European *-yetider. Latin -iāre Vulgar Latin *dīrēctiāre Old French drecier Old French adrecierbor. Middle English adressen English address English readdress From re- + address.