wiki
/ˈwɪki/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.61 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
2
Syllables
3
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Meaning
noun
A collaborative website which can be directly edited merely by using a web browser, often by anyone who has access to it.
name
Example Sentences
- "He spent time editing articles on the wiki."
- "To get an understanding of the topics, he quickly went online and wikied each one."
- "I tore through his collection wikiing any plot points that I missed learning the importance of the players of the DC universe"
- "Her English is no better than my Portuguese, but I wikied 'influenza' in Portuguese and it came up with 'gripe'"
- "I did research on the internet and found out so. I “wikied” it."
- "Blogging, wiki-ing, coding are all activities that generate authorial product."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Polynesian *witi Hawaiian wiki Hawaiian wikiwiki Proto-Indo-European *webʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *webaną Proto-Germanic *wabją Old English webb Middle English web English web English WikiWikiWebclip. English wiki First appearance in 1995 in PC Week. Abbreviated from WikiWikiWeb, from Hawaiian wikiwiki (“quick”) + English web.
Word Breakdown
- Root: wikiwiki
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