Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

unencouraging

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
un-en-cour-ag-ing
IPA
17
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Not encouraging.

Etymology

From un- + encouraging.

Word Breakdown

Derived Forms

unencouragingly

Questions

What does unencouraging mean?
Not encouraging.
Where does unencouraging come from?
From un- + encouraging.

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