Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

squiggol

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: squig-gol
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

The Bird–Meertens formalism.

Humorous

Example Sentences

"The overall goal of Squiggol is to calculate programs from their specifications in the way a mathematician calculates solutions to differential equations, or uses arithmetic to solve numerical problems."

Etymology

Blend of squiggly + ALGOL, from the “squiggly” symbols it uses.

Usage

Humorous

Questions

What does squiggol mean?: The Bird–Meertens formalism.
Where does squiggol come from?: Blend of squiggly + ALGOL, from the “squiggly” symbols it uses.

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