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sixth-rate

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.31 in modern English

Syllables
six-th-rate
IPA
19
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of a Royal Navy warship in the Napoleonic Era: having 20–28 guns on one gun deck, a complement of 140–200, and weighing 340–550 tons burthen.

British usage

adj

Terrible, awful; less than fifth-rate.

noun

A sixth-rate warship.

British usage

Example Sentences

Usage

Inflected Forms

sixth rate (alternative) sixth-rates (plural)

Phrases

fifth-rate first-rate fourth-rate second-rate third-rate post ship

Frequently Paired Words

fifth-rate first-rate fourth-rate second-rate third-rate frigate post ship

Synonyms

dismal horrible rubbish abysmal atrocious awful bad chronic coarse corny crap crapalicious

Questions

What does sixth-rate mean?
Of a Royal Navy warship in the Napoleonic Era: having 20–28 guns on one gun deck, a complement of 140–200, and weighing 340–550 tons burthen.

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