india-no-place
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.94 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
6
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "They were twenty-year-old twins who had just moved out from Indianapolis, or “India-no-place,” as they said. They wanted to be stars."
- "Hardly anybody writes odes to Indianapolis. No Sandburg or Gershwin has ever praised the Midwestern city’s hard American beauty. No bustling metropolis, that town; no seething cauldron of culture. Instead, folks mockingly called it “India-no-place.”"
- "These monikers are frequently descriptive (“The Capital City”), associated with a prominent industry (“The Railroad City”), geographical (“Crossroads of America”), sports-related (home of “The Greatest Spectacle in Racing”), religiously inspired (“City of Churches”), derogatory (“Naptown,” “India-no-place,” “End-of-No-Place”), or abbreviations (“Indy”)."
- "It has a sort of big city, whose nickname is India-no-place, but the rest of the state is composed of small towns with little opportunity."