Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

high-wire-walker

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.11 in modern English

Syllables: high--wire-walk-er
IPA

31

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

5

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Alternative form of highwire walker.

Example Sentences

"A high-wire-walker appeared on our streets last Thursday afternoon and performed some wonderful feats on a small wire cable stretched across Chestnut street, from the top of Leonard Smith’s block, occupied by the Union Drug Store of Denniston, Reinardy & Co to the top of Wheeler’s three-story block over the Free Press office."
"Fiercely protective and lavishly generous with his family and his close circle of friends, the soft-spoken Cablevision chairman pursues his goals with a self-made man’s stubbornness, a chess master’s patience and a high-wire-walker’s tolerance for risk."
"You never know if this might be the night that the high-wire-walker loses his balance and fails to recover."

Inflected Forms

high-wire-walkers (plural)

Questions

What does high-wire-walker mean?: Alternative form of highwire walker.

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