tennis
/ˈtɛnɪs/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.35 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A sport played by two players (or four in doubles), who alternately strike the ball over a net using racquets.
Uncountable
noun
An earlier game in which a ball is driven to and fro, or kept in motion by striking it with a racquet or with the open hand.
Obsolete; Uncountable
name
An unincorporated community in Finney County, Kansas, United States.
Example Sentences
- "“Anthea hasn't a notion in her head but to vamp a lot of silly mugwumps. She's set her heart on that tennis bloke[…]whom the papers are making such a fuss about.”"
- "One of Naomi Osaka's sponsors has been forced to apologise after depicting the Japanese tennis star, who is half-Haitian, with pale skin in an advertisement."
- "We go about to parties in the daytime as usual, teas and tennises[…]"
- "tennis-balls"
- "His easy bow, his good stories, his style of dancing and playing tennis, […] were familiar to all London."
- "they shall have Intelligence or Espial upon the Enemy, will so drive him from one side to another, and tennis him amongst them"
Etymology
From Middle English tennys, teneys, tenis, from Old French tenez (second-person plural imperative of tenir (“to hold”)).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈtɛnɪs/
- British English: /ˈtɛnɪs/