Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

unstaffed

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.49 in modern English

Syllables: un-staffed
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Without staff, or workers.

Example Sentences

"Newbury (West Fields) which was added later, is on the east side, and is permanently unstaffed."
"India’s national space agency said that communications with its first unstaffed spacecraft to orbit the moon were lost on Saturday and that its scientists were no longer controlling the orbiter."
"The RMT says that some unstaffed stations cater for hundreds of thousands of passengers each year, citing as examples Barry Island (867,598 passengers in 2018-19), Dumbarton East (453,010) and East Worthing (424,176)."

Etymology

From un- + staffed.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: un

Questions

What does unstaffed mean?: Without staff, or workers.
Where does unstaffed come from?: From un- + staffed.

How to pronounce unstaffed

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