ut
/ut/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.72 in modern English
2
Scrabble Score
2
Letters
1
Syllables
2
Unique Chars
Meaning
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Abbreviation of Utah: a state of the United States.
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Abbreviation of Uttarakhand: a state of India.
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Initialism of University of Texas, Austin TX.
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Example Sentences
- "Weighing the risks and benefits of statins remains important because most patients are prescribed medication for the rest of their lives, said Dr. Amit Khera, a professor and director of the UT Southwestern Medical Center’s Preventive Cardiology Program, who was not involved in the study."
- "states and UTs"
- "Old Mantuam, old Mantuan. Who vnderſtandeth thee not, vt re ſol la mi fa: Vnder pardon sir, What are the contents? […]"
- "The French added si for the seventh, and the Italians changed ut to do. Modern music-books name the whole thirteen notes of the semi-tone scale, and expect the pupil to learn them all."
Etymology
From Middle English ut (“first degree or note of Guido of Arezzo's hexachordal scales”), Italian ut in the solmization of Guido of Arezzo, from the opening word Latin ut (“how”) in the lyrics of the scale-ascending hymn Ut queant laxis by Benedictine monk Paulus Deacon (8th c. CE).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: ut
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ut/
- British English: /ʊt/