slike
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.33 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Etymology
From Middle English sliken, from Old English *slīcan (“to crawl, slink”), from Proto-West Germanic *slīkan, from Proto-Germanic *slīkaną (“to creep, crawl”), from Proto-Indo-European *sleyg-, *sleyǵ- (“to glide, smooth, spread”). Cognate with German Low German slieken (“to slink, crawl”), German schleichen (“to creep, crawl, slink, sneak”), Old English slīcian (“to make sleek, slick, smooth, or glossy”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: sliken, *slīcan, *slīkan, *slīkaną, *sleyg-, slīcian
Usage
- Intransitive verb
- Transitive verb
- British usage