ted
/tɛd/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.26 in modern English
4
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Acronym of Technology, Entertainment, Design, a series of global conferences.
noun
A Teddy boy.
Example Sentences
- "Second, Kaczynski attended Harvard University and the University of Michigan, not MIT. An MIT spokesperson said in a Wednesday email: “We have no enrollment record or information that Ted Kaczynski ever attended MIT.”"
- "Returning TED talker Sherry Turkle, an author and academic, says that giving lectures about how lonely the Internet is making people has made her and her audiences even lonelier."
- "The teds made the most of rising blue-collar wages to peacock each weekend in pseudo-aristocratic suits and immaculate pompadours, while their straitlaced peers trudged through the grind of school and work in drab clothing."
- "Turning and fluffing the cut hay, or tedding, speeds and evens out drying."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: tedden, *teddan, *taddjan, *tadjaną
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /tɛd/
- British English: /tɛd/