Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

undersaturated

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.06 in modern English

Syllables: un-der-sat-u-rat-ed
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

6

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Insufficiently saturated

adj

(of igneous rock) Having minerals without free silica

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *-tér Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér Proto-Indo-European *h₂én Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-? Proto-Indo-European *-dʰi ? Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰí Proto-Indo-European *-ér Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰér Proto-Germanic *under Proto-West Germanic *undar Old English under- Middle English under- English under- English saturated English undersaturated From under- + saturated.

Inflected Forms

more undersaturated (comparative) most undersaturated (superlative)

Questions

What does undersaturated mean?: Insufficiently saturated
Where does undersaturated come from?: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *-tér Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér Proto-Indo-European *h₂én Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-? Proto-Indo-European *-dʰi ? Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰí Proto-Indo-European *-ér Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰér Proto-Germanic *under Proto-West Germanic *undar Old English under- Middle English under- English under- English saturated English undersaturated From under- + saturated.

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