Words · Rare
adventitial
11 letters · 8 distinct letters
- adjective
of or pertaining to the adventitia
Word history
History of adventitious
From Medieval Latin adventītius (“coming from abroad, extraneous”), a corruption of Latin adventīcius (“foreign, strange, accidental”), from adventus (“arrival, coming, approach, advent”) + īcius (suffix forming adjectives), from adveniō (“to arrive”) + tus (suffix forming action nouns).
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Why this word counts
- Where it comes from
- From the ENABLE word list, a public domain list made for word games.
- How common it is
- Too rare to measure in everyday writing.
- In the spelling bee
- Not playable It uses more than seven different letters, so it can’t fit in a hive.