pling
/plɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.50 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "This illustrates the order in which bytes are poked into memory with the pling operator."
- "IMO, prefixing a directory name with a pling so that a program within it is run when you double click on it is a rather untidy way to do things."
- "Make sure that you consider ISO 9660 restrictions on the use of characters in disc, directory and file names. Only upper case alpha and numeric characters plus the underscore (_) and pling (!) can be used as legal characters."
- "Acorn Computing used to be big offenders when it came to referring to applications by their pling-inclusive names. They loved it. Unfortunately it made their articles sound silly (for want of a better adjective)."
- "The computer plinged to announce the arrival of another email, this time from Isotta."