swike
/swaɪk/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
Etymology
From Middle English swiken, from Old English swīcan (“to wander, depart, cease from, yield, give way, fail, fall short, be wanting, abandon, desert, turn traitor, deceive, rebel”), from Proto-West Germanic *swīkwan, from Proto-Germanic *swīkwaną (“to dodge, swerve, avoid, betray”), from Proto-Indo-European *sweyg- (“to turn, move around, wander, swing”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: swiken, swīcan, *swīkwan, *swīkwaną, *sweyg-
Usage
Inflected Forms
swikes (present, singular)
swiking (participle, present)
swoke (past)
swicken (participle, past)
more swike (comparative)
most swike (superlative)
swikes (plural)