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sparstone

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
spar-stone
IPA
11
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Spar.

Etymology

Etymology tree Old English spærstān Middle English sparston English sparstone From Middle English sparston, from Old English spærstān (“gypsum, chalk”). Related to Low German spar (“spar”), German Sparkalk (“plaster”). By surface analysis, spar (“light-colored mineral”) + stone.

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: sparston, spærstān

Inflected Forms

sparstones (plural)

Questions

What does sparstone mean?
Spar.
Where does sparstone come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

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