Definitions for uncommon

uncommon un·com·mon

Spelling: [uhn-kom-uh n]
IPA: /ʌnˈkɒm ən/

Uncommon is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 74 anagrams from letters in uncommon (cmmnnoou).

Definitions for uncommon

adjective

  1. not common; unusual; rare:
  2. unusual in amount or degree; above the ordinary:
  3. exceptional; remarkable.

Origin of uncommon

First recorded in 1540-50; un-1 + common

Examples for uncommon

Though tissues are present and tears are not uncommon, the Dinner Parties are distinctly not grief counseling or group therapy.

Her spirits are remarkably high—not an uncommon effect of laudanum.

Compulsive writing, or hypergraphia, is a well-known, if uncommon, symptom of temporal lobe epilepsy.

These negotiations are not uncommon on junketed studio films.

Although often this is considered proof positive of guilt at trial, it is not an uncommon occurrence in false confessions.

The doctor there speaks of 'our steel pens,' as if they were not at all uncommon.

Love poems between aristocratic women were not uncommon at the time, as long as they stayed safely on the side of friendship.

They was all hard up there, Mr Plornish said, uncommon hard up, to be sure.

That's a woman who observes and reflects in an uncommon manner.

It gives us a new, and quite an uncommon interest in the dinner.

Word Value for uncommon
Scrable

14

Words with friends

20

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