plain
/pleɪn/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.43 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adj
Example Sentences
- "The crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain."
- "The Vampyre Bat. Tailless bat with the nose plain, and the flying-membrane divided between the thighs."
- "He was dressed simply in plain black clothes."
- "a plain tune"
- "The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone, essentially what today we might term a frameless magnifying glass or plain glass paperweight."
- "a plain pink polycotton skirt"
Etymology
From Middle English pleyn, borrowed from Anglo-Norman pleyn, playn, Middle French plain, plein, and Old French plain, from Latin plānus (“flat, even, level, plain”). Doublet of llano, piano, plane, and plan.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /pleɪn/
- British English: /pleɪn/