Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

spilth

/spɪlθ/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: spilth
IPA: /spɪlθ/

11

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

1

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Spillage; spilled material.

Archaic; Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"I tempted his blood and his flesh, / Hid in roses my mesh, / Choicest cates and the flagon's best spilth— / Still he kept to his filth!"
"Like a vast spider suspended by a metal chord, a candelabrum presided over the room nine feet above the floor-boards. From its sweeping arms of iron, long stalactites of wax lowered their pale spilths drip by drip, drip by drip."
"Baked fish lay cooling on the table, and there was a great spilth of wine on the floor."

Etymology

From spill + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Compare Old English *spilþ, spild (“annihilation, destruction, ruin”).

Word Breakdown

Suffix: spill

Usage

Inflected Forms

spilths (plural)

Rhymes With

filth tilth earth-tilth illth

Questions

How do you pronounce spilth?: The recorded pronunciation is /spɪlθ/.
What does spilth mean?: Spillage; spilled material.
Where does spilth come from?: From spill + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Compare Old English *spilþ, spild (“annihilation, destruction, ruin”).

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