hum-buzz
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.46 in modern English
32
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A low, continuous, droning sound (like a bee or an idling engine), often indicating a mechanical or electrical noise.
noun
Hubbub; busy activity or excitement.
Example Sentences
- "Speaking so quietly I was confident the ambient hum-buzz and the trio of phone conversations would keep anyone farther than a foot away from eavesdropping."
- "[...] you'll end up in the Backrooms, where it's nothing but the stink of old moist carpet, the madness of mono-yellow, the endless background noise of fluorescent lights at maximum hum-buzz, and approximately six hundred million square miles of randomly segmented empty rooms [...]"
Inflected Forms
hum-buzzes (plural)