Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

rubyist

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ruby-ist
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A user of the Ruby programming language.

Example Sentences

"Why do Rubyists choose Ruby? Probably because it gets their work done. But I suspect that the project culture is part of it."
"By convention, Rubyists usually underscore their method names."

Etymology

From Ruby + -ist.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: Ruby

Inflected Forms

Rubyists (plural)

Questions

What does rubyist mean?: A user of the Ruby programming language.
Where does rubyist come from?: From Ruby + -ist.

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