Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

tertiary color

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.51 in modern English

Syllables: ter-tiary -col-or
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any color that results from the mixing of two secondary colors, or of a primary color and an adjacent secondary color.

American usage

Usage

American usage

Inflected Forms

tertiary colors (plural) tertiary colour (alternative) UK (alternative)

Frequently Paired Words

primary color secondary color

Questions

What does tertiary color mean?: Any color that results from the mixing of two secondary colors, or of a primary color and an adjacent secondary color.

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