unfoul
/ʌnˈfaʊl/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "‘We've lost quite a few men,’ the old man says as he energetically unfouls his rifle and carefully loads it with black powder that he extracts from a horn."
- "How one repairs a broken sled, the quickest way to unfoul the dog lines, how to prevent the dogs from tangling the lines after stops, and so on."
Etymology
From un- + foul.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: un
Usage
Inflected Forms
unfouls (present, singular)
unfouling (participle, present)
unfouled (participle, past)
unfouled (past)
more unfoul (comparative)
most unfoul (superlative)