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recriminatory

adjective

recriminatory is spelled R-E-C-R-I-M-I-N-A-T-O-R-Y: 13 letters. It appears about once in every 93 million words in written English, the 309,272nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, recriminatory means “In the way of recriminations” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in recriminatory?

Letters13: R-E-C-R-I-M-I-N-A-T-O-R-Y
In writingabout once in every 93 million words; the 309,272nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is recriminatory?

Recriminatory appears about once in every 93 million words in written English, the 309,272nd most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Forms of recriminatory

  • more recriminatory comparative
  • most recriminatory superlative

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does recriminatory mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    In the way of recriminations.

    His dwelling on recriminatory memories pushed him into depression.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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