Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

umptiest

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ump-ti-est
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Misconstruction of umpteenth.

Example Sentences

"These days, Senator Henry Jackson, notorious for his ties with the Pentagon, has "distinguished" himself in this unseemly field for the umptiest time."
"This is in reality the umptiest variant of the Hobbes-Rousseau controversy […]"

Etymology

As though formed as an ordinal number from umpty + -est.

Questions

What does umptiest mean?: Misconstruction of umpteenth.
Where does umptiest come from?: As though formed as an ordinal number from umpty + -est.

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