ashkenazis
/ˌæʃkənˈɑziz/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The 45 Young Ashkenazis studied were 18-20 years old. They were mostly students from the upper middle economic class, of families that had long been settled in Israel. An older group of 115 Ashkenazis were from 50—52 with an average ..."
- "But the majority became levantinized Ashkenazis."
- "All the children, especially little Dinele, the daughter of the Ashkenazis' neighbor,"
- "This meant that in order to convince people from these countries to immigrate, Ashkenazis needed to send agitators to Arabic countries."
- "The norm has become to undergo genetic testing before getting pregnant, certainly in Israel, where certain populations have heightened propensity for genetic diseases, such as Tay Sachs among Ashkenazis and broad bean allergy among those of Middle—Eastern descent."