self-cleaning
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.33 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "After cooking the thanksgiving turkey we appreciate the self-cleaning oven as it gets really hot and burns off the splattered grease."
- "The letters "SC" inscribed on the smokebox door of a locomotive denote that it is fitted with a self-cleaning smokebox."
- "A further disadvantage of the Crosti system is that it is impossible to fit a self-cleaning smokebox."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *swé? Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *selbaz Old English self Old English self- Middle English self- English self- English cleaning English self-cleaning From self- + cleaning.