shchav
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "They picked sour “shchav,” hunted for mushrooms and searched for possibly edible roots to supplement the barley-water of the general soup kitchen."
- "We often picked shchav, little green leaves that were smaller and lighter in color than spinach, which Mother would later cook into a borscht."
- "He took us into the field and taught us which grass was edible: clover, wild shchav, and mint."
- "Among my early recollections are going past a mill to the meadow with Olga to pick shchav (sorrel) for borscht […]"