queens
/kwiːnz/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.06 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A surname.
name
A borough of New York City, New York, United States, one of five, situated on Long Island, north of Brooklyn, west of Nassau County.
name
Ellipsis of Queens County: a county of New York, United States, which is coterminous with the borough of Queens.
name
Misspelling of Queens', referring to Queens' College, Cambridge.
Example Sentences
- "Though he was not the only New Yorker on the bench, he was the only spoiled-rotten Italian kid brought up proud and scrapping in Queens and familiar with rude Sicilian gestures."
Usage
Inflected Forms
Queenses (plural)