search
/sɝt͡ʃ/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.96 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "With only five minutes until we were meant to leave, the search for the keys started in earnest."
- "At least eight people died, and officials expressed deep concerns that the toll would rise as more searches of homes were carried out."
- "Search is a hard problem for computers to solve efficiently."
- "Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet. Perhaps we assume that our name, address and search preferences will be viewed by some unseen pair of corporate eyes, probably not human, and don't mind that much."
- "I searched the garden for the keys and found them in the vegetable patch."
- "The police are searching for evidence in his flat."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-der. Ancient Greek κίρκος (kírkos)bor. Latin circus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Late Latin circō Anglo-Norman sercherbor. Middle English serchen English search Inherited from Middle English serchen, borrowed from Anglo-Norman sercher, Old French cerchier, from Late Latin circō, ,circāre (“to circle; go around; search for”), from circus. Unrelated to German suchen, which is cognate with English seek.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: serchen, sercher, cerchier, circō,
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /sɝt͡ʃ/
- British English: /sɜːt͡ʃ/
Usage
Inflected Forms
searches (plural)
searches (present, singular)
searching (participle, present)
searched (participle, past)
searched (past)
no-table-tags (table tags)
glossary (inflection template)
searched (first person, past)
searchest (archaic, present)
searched (past, second person)
searchedst (archaic, past)
searcheth (archaic, present)