picquet
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.55 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A surname from French.
Example Sentences
- "Sometimes, it is true, Gertrude's resistance flagged; but this was only the temporary acquiescence of fatigue, and the battle was renewed with the old spirit on the next occasion, and was all to be fought over again. At breakfast there was generally, as I may say, an affair of picquets, and through the day a dropping fire, sometimes rising to a skirmish; but the social meal of supper was generally the period when, for the most part, these desultory hostilities blazed up into a general action."
Etymology
From French Picquet.
Origin
- Source language: French
Word Breakdown
- Root: Picquet