uncapped
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.47 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not having made an appearance in an international sports match.
verb
simple past and past participle of uncap
Example Sentences
- "I struggling faintly, could not help feeling what I could not grasp, a column of the whitest ivory, beautifully streak'd with blue veins, and carrying, fully uncapt, a head of the liveliest vermillion"
- "From rolling plain where crumbling Tiber flows, / To fixed Soracte still uncapped with snow."
- ""And I see over here you have buckets of honey you have gathered. It is uncapped, and liquid.""
- "there seems nothing very unusual about an uncapped 20-year-old English midfielder being asked to step up in the Champions League last-16 against Real Madrid."
- "The jury is still out on their purchase of French defender Wesley Fofana, who cost £75m from Leicester in 2022 and has struggled with injury. He made his France debut in 2023 but remains, we think, the most expensive player to move clubs while uncapped."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: un