Words · Rare
lenition
8 letters · 6 distinct letters
lenition is in Nectary’s accepted word list, but we don’t have a definition for it yet.
Word history
Analyzable as lenis + ition, or as if from Latin lēnīt(us) + ion, or Latin lēnītiō (“softening”) from lēniō (“soften”) + tiō (action noun suffix) (attested since at least the 1500s, the same timeframe lenition is first attested in English with the sense "assuaging"). Modelled on German Lenierung.
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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.