Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

sibilous

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: sibilous
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

1

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Having a hissing sound; sibilant.

Example Sentences

"a sibilous rattle"
"In the height of summer it [the grasshopper warbler] chirps the whole night: its sibilous note is observed to cease about the latter end of Jul"

Etymology

Latin sibilus.

Inflected Forms

more sibilous (comparative) most sibilous (superlative)

Questions

What does sibilous mean?: Having a hissing sound; sibilant.
Where does sibilous come from?: Latin sibilus.

How to pronounce sibilous

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