Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

ruption

/ˈɹʌpʃən/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: rup-tion
IPA: /ˈɹʌpʃən/

9

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A breaking or bursting open; breach; rupture.

noun

Example Sentences

"The plenitude of vessels or plethora causes an extravasion of blood, by ruption or apertion"
"You can't cure it, for it's a ruption of an air vessel , and you can't get at it to sew it up."
"Still there was a possibility of ectopic gestation with a ruption of tube downward, death of ovum, and a disintergration of this foreign growth."
"The ruption of teeth in the healthy child is a physiological process without disturbance,"
""Would you? You might insist long long enough before you would get that done. I fancy," replied Peter Dyer, who was much inclined to assist in a "ruption," as he termed it, in the morning, as he had been in the night before."
"But you know the square and I had a kind of a ruption about that Mr. Quickerrow; he don't come here, and so I don't come to your house."

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ruptio, from rumpere, ruptum (“to break”).

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: *Hrewp-, ruptio

Inflected Forms

ruptions (plural)

Rhymes With

corruption disruption eruption interruption creeping eruption bozo eruption anticorruption abruption placental abruption irruption incorruption supereruption

Questions

How do you pronounce ruption?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈɹʌpʃən/.
What does ruption mean?: A breaking or bursting open; breach; rupture.
Where does ruption come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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