five-alarm
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.25 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
The highest priority category of a multialarm fire.
Example Sentences
- "And the hundred-thirty-pound Rich LeFevre, in six hundred seconds, inhaled one and a half gallons of five-alarm chili."
- "Instead, I only worked the Five Alarm cases—high-profile murders—and for those I exclusively partnered with Honey."
- "As Democrats have said to me, if you say everything’s a five-alarm fire, then nothing’s a five-alarm fire, right? They’re going to be cautious about where they pick their moments."