Words · Rare
comminution
11 letters · 7 distinct letters
comminution is in Nectary’s accepted word list, but we don’t have a definition for it yet.
Word history
From Latin comminūtiō (“breaking into pieces, crumbling, shattering; crushing, pulverizing”), from Latin comminuō (“to break or crumble into small pieces; to crush, pulverize”) (from com (prefix indicating completeness) + minuō (“to make smaller; to diminish, lessen”), ultimately from Proto Indo European *mey (“little, small”)) + Latin tiō (suffix forming a noun relating to some action or the result of an action); equivalent to comminute + ion.
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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
- Rarer than once in ten million words.
- In the spelling bee
- Bonus word The ENABLE list is generous with rare words, so words found only there score as bonus words.