'splosion
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.19 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "Such crashes all of a sudden, and ’splosions that would frighten any man alive, let alone a woman; and what’s worse than all put together, I believe they murder all the hinnocent cats and dogs that ever they catches."
- "I tell you, Ruth, ’twas like a shot, a boombshell, within doubtin, / Whose ’splosion made the timbers fly, an set 'em all to poutin."
- "“Yassum, I guess it wasn’t,” said the Little Bit of a Girl. “But that ain’t the funny part. I was up to th’ hospital f’r weeks an’ weeks an’ weeks, an’ I was there on a bed, an’ by me on ’nother bed was a big man who had been blew up by a ’splosion somewhere. He use to talk to me, an’ we was good friends f’r quite a spell, an’ when his wife use to bring him flowers he use to give some of ’em to me when she was gone away, yassum."