Words · Rare
adventitious
12 letters · 10 distinct letters
- adjective
associated by chance and not an integral part
they had to decide whether his misconduct was adventitious or the result of a flaw in his character
Word history
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
- Listed in the English Speller Database at size 50: the standard list most spell checkers use.
- How common it is
- Rarer than once in ten million words.
- In the spelling bee
- Not playable It uses more than seven different letters, so it can’t fit in a hive.