wrength
/ɹɛŋθ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Those who would exalt themselves by abetting the strength of the Godless, and the wrength of the oppressors."
- "[...] Wrong is short-lived, and right must vanquish at length, If, scorning the wrong, we do others no wrength."
- ""Dad," I said, "this isn't an in-between, is it?" "This isn't an in-between," He said. "Honestly, Cass, I'm at a loss for what to call this." "I know exactly what to call it," I said. "Wrength." "Wrength?" "Wrongness." In fact, the way I saw it, Mom had invented a whole new level of wrongness. A bad so bad that wrength might not even be capable of describing it. [...]""
- "This world is full of wrength, Nothing will be done till we stand up to it upto^([sic]) its maximum length […]"
- "In wrength they banished him, astride His vengeful rage now rode, and chide He did his sense, his kin and home; Yet sunderance he would not abide."
Etymology
Probably originally a nonce formation from wrong + -th (abstract nominal suffix) by analogy with strong ~ strength and long ~ length; compare Middle English wrengthe (“crookedness, distortion”).