weather-tight
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.39 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "[…] There’s a rubble-stone Unfit for the front o’ the building, stuff to stow In a gap behind and keep us weather-tight; There’s porphyry for the prominent place. Good lack!"
- "Some experts claim that it is a bad practice in stone buildings to build the window-frames in with the stone masonry of the wall, and that the openings should be carefully made, the stone wall being brought to a proper face, thoroughly pointed, and the window-frames put in afterward, if a weather-tight job is desired."
- "The house was weather-tight and warm, big fires blazed in every room."
Inflected Forms
more weather-tight (comparative)
most weather-tight (superlative)