frankfurt
/ˈfɹæŋkfɝt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.62 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
The largest city in Hesse, in central Germany; in full, Frankfurt am Main.
name
The largest city in Hesse, in central Germany; in full, Frankfurt am Main.
name
The largest city in Hesse, in central Germany; in full, Frankfurt am Main.
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A sizable town in Brandenburg, in eastern Germany; in full, Frankfurt an der Oder.
Example Sentences
- "Thomas was born in 1986, at a US military hospital in Frankfurt, Germany, to a mother born in Kenya and a US citizen father who eventually spent more than a decade in the military, where he repaired Army helicopters."
- "The poor third-quarter results from Frankfurt had the broadest impact because they spotlighted the vulnerability of the listed German universal banks to the financial crisis spreading from Asia."
- "Despite this risk, little has happened in the six months since Frankfurt cut interest rates causing one to wonder how different Draghi is from his predecessor."
- "Sample of frankfurts procured from Stanley Kwiatkowski, Grand Rapids, Mich. Contains excessive amount of cereal."
- "Frankfurts of the highest quality are prepared generally from a mixture of approximately half beef and half pork."
- "As a kid in the 50s, (before we became infested with the current mish-mash of liquorice allsorts) pork fritz, devon, sliced ham, frankfurts, pork sausages...were all about as common a staple as you care to name. Even the Italians and Greeks of the time ate (and continue to eat) the stuff!!"
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: Frankfurt
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈfɹæŋkfɝt/
- British English: /ˈfɹæŋkfɜːt/
Usage
- Australian usage
- American usage