k-shaped
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.27 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Shaped like the letter "K" or its mirror image.
adj
Example Sentences
- "K-shaped economy"
- "In April 2020, at the very start of the pandemic, economist Peter Atwater came up with an easy way to describe what this divide feels like to Americans: a K-shaped economy. A small few are on the upper part of the “K”, while most Americans feel as if they’re sliding down on the bottom side of the letter. […] Chief executives of companies such as Delta, Coca-Cola and McDonald’s have pointed out the K-shaped gap they’re seeing in consumer behavior."
- "About two decades later, the structural break that created the K-shaped economy, as it’s now understood, was more clearly observed in the wake of the Global Financial Crisis of the late 2000s, he said."