savvy
/ˈsæv.i/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.56 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "That such a safe adaptation could come of The Hunger Games speaks more to the trilogy’s commercial ascent than the book’s actual content, which is audacious and savvy in its dark calculations."
- "Mellors explains that the current mix of customers on Avanti's trains is more skewed towards leisure customers who are price savvy. Typically, this means that the average yield from their tickets is lower."
- "He's probably a perfect technician as a surgeon, but he knows you get only what you grab. Think of the years it's taken me to learn what he savvied all the time!"
Etymology
Alteration of save, sabi (“to know”) (in English-based creoles and pidgins), from Portuguese sabe (“[she/he] knows”), from saber (“to know”), from Latin sapere (“to taste; to know”). First appears c. 1785 in a dictionary by Francis Grose, as a noun, “practical sense, intelligence”; also a verb, “to know, to understand”. The adjective is first recorded 1905, from the noun.
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Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈsæv.i/
- British English: /ˈsæv.i/