veddoid
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A subtype of the Australoid race which includes the Vedda people of South India and others.
Example Sentences
- "Anthropologists have classified these people as Veddoid after the Vedda tribes of Ceylon, and assign to this group the Senoi and Sakai hill-tribes of Malaya, and other backward peoples of south Celebes and on the Engano and Mentawei Islands off the west coast of Sumatra."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
Veddoids (plural)
Phrases
Indo-Melanid