Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

tocrack

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: toc-rack
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To crack, fracture, fissure; to break with a cracking sound.

Obsolete; Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"The mighty warrior all tocracked that heathen's skull with one blow of his mighty club."

Etymology

From Middle English tocraken (“to cause a cracking sound by breaking something with a lot of force; to fracture”), from Old English cracian (“to make a cracking sound, crack”), from Proto-West Germanic *krakōn (“to crack, crackle, shriek”), equivalent to to- + crack.

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Prefix: to
Root: tocraken, cracian, *krakōn

Usage

Inflected Forms

tocracks (present, singular) tocracking (participle, present) tocracked (participle, past) tocracked (past)

Questions

What does tocrack mean?: To crack, fracture, fissure; to break with a cracking sound.
Where does tocrack come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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