picked
/pɪkt/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.72 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
simple past and past participle of pick
Example Sentences
- "For instance, in the year 1582 Akbar, who was a philosopher and a humorist as well as a model ruler, sent an invitation to the 'wise men among the Franks' at Goa to journey to Agra, there to meet in public controversy before him a picked band of Mohammedan mullas and prove the superiority of their faith."
- "the picked dogfish"
- "He is too / picked, too spruce, too affected, too odd, as it were, / too peregrinate, as I may call it."
- "Why then I suck my teeth and catechize / My picked man of countries:"
- "[…] an useful bow a skilful bowyer wrought, / Which picked and polished both the ends he hid with horns of gold."
- "A very good way to take them, is to drive a stake into the ground about four foot high above the surface of the earth: Let the stake be made picked at the top, that the jay may not settle on it."
Usage
Inflected Forms
more picked (comparative)
most picked (superlative)
Derived Forms
Phrases
hand-picked
picked-strings