shambles
/ˈʃæmbəlz/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.11 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Considering my life's in shambles right now, couldn't you at least take the blame?"
- "This bedroom is a shambles."
- "Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, that eat, asking no question for conscience sake."
- "As to our City of Dublin, Shambles may be appointed for this purpoſe, in the moſt convenient parts of it, and Butchers vve may be aſſured vvill not be vvanting, […]"
Etymology
From Middle English schamels, plural of schamel, from Old English sċeamol, sċamul (“bench, stool”), from Proto-West Germanic *skamul, *skamil (“stool, bench”), from Vulgar Latin scamellum, from Latin scamillum (“little bench, ridge”), from Latin scamnum (“bench, ridge, breadth of a field”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: schamels, sċeamol, *skamul, scamellum, scamillum, scamnum