twixt
/twɪkst/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.08 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The roote of Hyachinthe is drie in the firſt degree, and colde in the ſeconde: but the ſeede is drie in the thirde degree, Yet temperate twixt heate and colde."
- "Since I haue your good leaue to go avvay, / I vvill make haſt. But till I come againe, / No bed ſhall ere [e'er] be guilty of my ſtay, / Nor reſt be interpoſer tvvixt vs tvvain."
- "I haue bedymn'd / The Noone tide Sun, call'd forth the mutenous vvindes, / And tvvixt the greene Sea, and the azur'd vault / Set roaring vvarre: […]"
- "[H]e had himſelfe / The Lands and VVaters, ’twixt your Throne and his, / Meaſur’d, to looke vpon you; vvhom he loues […]"
- "O! thou thrice happy Shire, confined so to bee / Twixt two so famous Floods, as Mersey is, and Dee."
- "I then tooke a ſtreight / That gaue my ſelfe, and ſome fevv more receipt / Tvvixt Scylla, and Charybdis; […]"
Etymology
From Middle English tuix, twyx (“among; between”) + English -t (excrescent ending). Tuix, twyx is an aphetic form of atwix, atwixen, atwixt (“between”), or bitwix, bitwixe, bitwixen, bitwixt (“among; between”): * Atwixt is derived from a- (prefix forming adverb (and derived adjectives and prepositions) expressing activity, condition, position, etc.) + bitwixt. * Bitwixt is derived from Old English betwix, betweox (“between”), from be- (intensifying prefix) + tweox (“twofold”) (from Proto-Germanic *twiskaz (“double, twofold”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ (“two”)).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /twɪkst/
- British English: /twɪkst/