Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

withershins

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: with-er-shins
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

Alternative spelling of widdershins (“anticlockwise”).

Example Sentences

"Boils up their Livers in a Warlock's pow, Rins withershins about the Hemlock low"
"The intellectual sweetness of those lines / That cut through time or cross it withershins."

Etymology

Alteration of widder- in widdershins (a borrowing from Middle Low German) after the English cognate form wither- (“against, anti-”).

Word Breakdown

Root: -

Questions

What does withershins mean?: Alternative spelling of widdershins (“anticlockwise”).
Where does withershins come from?: Alteration of widder- in widdershins (a borrowing from Middle Low German) after the English cognate form wither- (“against, anti-”).

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