Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

verbarium

/ˌvɝˈbɛɹi.əm/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ver-bar-i-um
IPA: /ˌvɝˈbɛɹi.əm/

16

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A word game in which the players are given a set of letters and must form as many words as possible from subsets of those letters.

Dated; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"We have played Verbarium with great pleasure, dividing the company into two sections or sides."
"[…] next she would play euchre twenty minutes; next it would be a game of verbarium, and so on all the day long—twenty minutes to each fleeting interest, with twenty minutes of billiards sandwiched between every two of them."

Etymology

From Latin verbum (“word”) + -arium.

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: verbum
Suffix: arium

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˌvɝˈbɛɹi.əm/
British English: /ˌvɜːˈbɛəɹi.əm/

Usage

Rhymes With

herbarium fusarium samarium imaginarium vivarium columbarium armamentarium oceanarium seaquarium itinerarium leprosarium insectarium

Questions

How do you pronounce verbarium?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˌvɝˈbɛɹi.əm/.
What does verbarium mean?: A word game in which the players are given a set of letters and must form as many words as possible from subsets of those letters.
Where does verbarium come from?: It is traced to Latin.

How to pronounce verbarium

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