selcouth
/sɛlˈkuːθ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "'A selcouth novelty,' muttered the knight, 'to advance to storm such a castle without pennon or banner displayed.'"
- "The statements in either document are unique and selcouth."
- "Left to its own devices and without the Web as a vehicle for misinforming others, the selcouth dogmas that forbade sexual relations ..."
Etymology
From Middle English selcouth, from Old English selcūþ, seldcūþ (“unusual, unwonted, little known, unfamiliar, novel, rare”), from seld- (“rarely”) + cūþ (“known”); equivalent to seld + couth.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *ǵneh₃-, selcouth, selcūþ
Usage
Inflected Forms
more selcouth (comparative)
most selcouth (superlative)