Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

sleeplike

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: sleep-like
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Resembling or characteristic of sleep.

Example Sentences

"One well-known and well-studied sleeplike state is called nyctinasty, or night movement."

Etymology

From sleep + -like.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: sleep

Inflected Forms

more sleeplike (comparative) most sleeplike (superlative)

Questions

What does sleeplike mean?: Resembling or characteristic of sleep.
Where does sleeplike come from?: From sleep + -like.

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