weigh
/weɪ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.99 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "He weighed out two kilos of oranges for a client."
- "You have been weighed in the balance and found wanting."
- "He took a long time weighing his options."
- "As they started picking features, customers would carefully weigh the choices, but as decision fatigue set in they'd start settling for whatever the default option was."
- "But ſhe thereof grew proud and inſolent, / That none ſhe worthie thought to be her fere, / But ſcornd them all, that loue vnto her ment; / Yet was ſhe lou’d of many a worthy pere, / Vnworthy ſhe to be belou’d ſo dere, / That could not weigh of worthineſſe aright."
- "I weigh ten and a half stone."
Etymology
From Middle English weyen, from Old English wegan, from Proto-West Germanic *wegan, from Proto-Germanic *weganą (“to move, carry, weigh”), from Proto-Indo-European *wéǵʰeti, from *weǵʰ- (“to bring, transport”). Cognates Cognate with Scots wey, wee, Dutch wegen, German wiegen, wägen, Danish veje, Norwegian Bokmål veie, Norwegian Nynorsk vega. Doublet of wedge, wagon, way, and vector.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *weǵʰ-, weyen, wegan, *wegan, *weganą, *wéǵʰeti