number one
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.56 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The most important person, the one who is in charge.
noun
Oneself, being considered foremost, as by an egoist.
noun
The main goalkeeper of a team, so-called because they wear the number 1 on the back of their kit.
Example Sentences
- "Commuting to work is the number one reason to own a car."
- "He is my enemy number one."
- "Road safety is a daily tragedy that doesn’t seem to make the front pages even though it’s a number one killer. In some countries, it causes more deaths than small firearms, and in others, more than illnesses."
- "The phone rings, in the middle of the night / My father yells "what you gonna do with your life" / Oh, daddy, dear, you know you're still number one / But girls, they wanna have fun / Oh, girls just wanna have..."
- "Djokovic came through 6-4 6-1 1-6 6-3 to end Nadal's reign as Wimbledon champion, before overtaking the Spaniard as world number one on Monday."
- "No man should have more than two attachments—the first, to number one, and the second to the ladies; that's what I say—ha! ha!"