Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

vocabular

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: vo-cab-u-lar
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Relating to vocabulary.

Archaic

Example Sentences

"On the contrary, it is sufficiently common to be generalized so that the grammatical part of language has been accredited with a permanence which has been denied to the glossarial or vocabular."

Etymology

From Latin vocābulum + -ar.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: la:vocābulum

Usage

Archaic

Synonyms

vocabularial vocabularian

Questions

What does vocabular mean?: Relating to vocabulary.
Where does vocabular come from?: From Latin vocābulum + -ar.

How to pronounce vocabular

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