mitsubishi
/ˌmɪt.sʊˈbɪ.ʃi/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.34 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A car manufactured by the Mitsubishi company (originally of Japan, but now with branches abroad).
noun
A plane manufactured by this company, especially during the Second World War.
Example Sentences
- "“I still marvel today at how those Toyotas and Nissans and Mitsubishis were able to cross the terrain that they did.” Away from the few paved roads in Afghanistan, vehicular travel is tortuous and perilous. The roads often appear to be no road at all."
- "Of course, it wasn't really a movie theater; […]. He vaguely recalled, with less acuity than a dream, watching an endless video of Saudi Arabian street racing on the big pull-down screen last night. […] He couldn't focus on anything except one hundred white Mitsubishis in a field. “You didn't throw up,” Kavinsky noted, from his perch two seats away. He held Ronan's phone. “Most people throw up after drinking that much.” Ronan didn't say the truth […]"
- "Lanphier gazed upward. A few thousand feet above them and about five miles off were faint outlines against a sky of blue. The faint outlines were interpreted to be six Zeros and two other Mitsubishis."
- "If a plane was heard overhead, every man would kneel. An entire unit would vanish, as if it had never been. An enemy oculd be a meter from such a man and still not see him. So what chance did the Mitsubishis stand?"
- "At 10:05 am, having circled around, eight of the Mitsubishis were again approaching,this time from the port bow. They were trying to line the cruiser up to provide the maximum target for bombers, which was the opposite of the maximum target for torpedo aircraft."
- "“I don't know what kind of roll you guys are looking for, but the Mitsubishis are what's hot right now. Not too speedy, not too mellow, a nice high."
Etymology
From Japanese 三菱 (Mitsubishi).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: 三菱