aroar
/əˈɹɔː(ɹ)/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Her quip set the dinner table aroar."
- "[…] scarcely five minutes had passed since Captain Ransome’s guns had broken the truce of doubt before the whole region was aroar: the enemy had attacked nearly everywhere."
- "The great room, ordinarily aroar with life, was still and gloomy as a tomb."
- "A ground swell set in; the beach was aroar with incoming waves;"
Etymology
From a- + roar.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: a