swordfish
/ˈsɔː(ɹ)dfɪʃ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.67 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A sudoku technique involving possible cell locations for a digit, or pair, or triple, in uniquely three rows and three columns only. This allows for the elimination of candidates around the grid.
Countable; Uncountable
verb
To fish for swordfish.
Example Sentences
- "Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season."
- "One reason, the department suggested, was that affluent New Yorkers were likely to eat expensive fish high in mercury, like swordfish and tuna."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: swerdfysche, *sweordfisċ