Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

unpen

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: un-pen
IPA

7

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

2

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To release (from a pen).

Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"Her supplies, a billy of tea and scraps of salt beef and damper (her dog got the beef), gave out the first day, though that was as nothing to her compared with the bleat of the penned sheep, for it was summer and droughty, and her dog could not unpen them."
"“What does a girl need college for?” my father’s words come rippling to me, from way back when he sorted mail, in the wave from my maillady, as I wave back with spring in my lungs, out jogging, unpenned from writing my reviews of Molly Peacock’s Original Love and Private I for the Y […]"

Etymology

From un- + pen.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: un

Usage

Transitive verb

Inflected Forms

unpens (present, singular) unpenning (participle, present) unpenned (participle, past) unpenned (past)

Questions

What does unpen mean?: To release (from a pen).
Where does unpen come from?: From un- + pen.

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