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/ˈɹʌk.ʃən/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "“If you do want to go home, here’s your whip. Don’t fall off. Say to her you wanted it, or there might be ructions.”"
- "She could see there were going to be ructions. Sure enough there'd be a scene between them, when Sebastian found what Tilly had been up to."
- "Although she acknowledged that the development of an opera house had caused considerable ructions in Australia, she nevertheless implied that its construction was a sort of coming-of-age for the rough antipodeans"
- "While the U.S. government had a huge fiscal deficit, similar to Greece's, the financial ructions emanating from Athens sent nervous money flocking to the United States, not away."
- "Dad drove and Mum commented on Dad's driving; not too much, but just enough to occasionally lead to ructions."
- "[…]the geopolitical ructions caused by Donald Trump's muscle-flexing in the Middle East, Vladimir Putin's military aggression and tense economic relations with China."
Etymology
1825, of unknown origin, possibly from eruption or insurrection. Possibly related to the Irish insurrection of 1798.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈɹʌk.ʃən/
- British English: /ˈɹʌk.ʃən/