Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

wordcraft

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: word-craft
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Skill with words; clever use of words or speech, rhetoric.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"It is the key concept in Jakobson's fundamental recognition of the importance of repetition in wordcraft […]"
"To identify a piece of speech in finance as rhetoric is not to damn it but to identify it as part of wordcraft."

Etymology

From word + -craft.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: word

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does wordcraft mean?: Skill with words; clever use of words or speech, rhetoric.
Where does wordcraft come from?: From word + -craft.

How to pronounce wordcraft

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