motorcycle
/ˈmoʊtɚˌsaɪkəl/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.07 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel, and having two (or sometimes three) wheels.
Example Sentences
- "Her big mission is to recover the precious Blue Star (a glowing rock in a box), which leads to a Western shoot-out, a space-age motorcycle gang, and an unamusing Darth Vader-esque villain."
- "That last problem did intrude on Hazzard’s roamings, and when she refers to the living city it is with periodic references to thefts of cars and wallets, with a warning not to carry anything “snatchable” by the thieves on motorcycles who whiz through the streets. Her husband, Francis Steegmuller, the critic, translator and biographer who died in 1994, had a bag snatched, and while he lost only a guidebook, he was badly injured as he held on to it and was dragged behind the attacking motorcycle."
- "Vern rubbed her hands along the motorcycles, admiring their size and power, their silver and black sleekness."
- "Her breakout was the 2017 production “Nate” (available as a Netflix special) in which she played a toxic, handsy bro who drove a motorcycle onstage, guzzling beers, groping audience members and creating chaos."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: *kʷel-
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈmoʊtɚˌsaɪkəl/
- British English: /ˈməʊʔəˌsaɪkl̩/