unpack
/ʌnˈpæk/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.04 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To remove from a package or container, particularly with respect to items that had previously been arranged closely and securely in a pack.
Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "They didn't have time to unpack their bags before going out to dinner."
- "They didn't have time to unpack before going to dinner."
- "There may be another argument here, if we had time to unpack it, about modernism and the rise of the middle classes."
- "Yet few Americans — including the president — understand how global trade works, both how it can help our economy and how some can be left behind. Let’s try to unpack a few of the complexities."
- "From a gender reveal to a secret ceremony and rifts with other royal family members, there was a lot to unpack from the interview"
- "The rounded vowels [y] and [œ/ə] in Russian seem to unpack as glide-vowel sequences in words borrowed from French and German, […]"
Etymology
From Middle English unpakken, equivalent to un- + pack. Compare Saterland Frisian uutpakje (“to unpack”), West Frisian útpakke (“to unpack”), Dutch uitpakken (“to unpack”), German auspacken (“to unpack”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: unpakken