asparkle
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "1909, Ralph Henry Barbour, The Lilac Girl, Fairfield, IA: 1st World Library, 2004, Chapter 10, p. 86, And when the sun shone against the walls of her palace it was filled with a lovely lavender light, and when the moon shone it was all asparkle with silver."
- "[…] the body of each high seat was a single jewel of monstrous size: the left-hand seat a black opal, asparkle with steel-blue fire, the next a fire-opal, as it were a burning coal, the third seat an alexandrite, purple like wine by night but deep sea-green by day."
- "Out on the deck, with the breeze blowing and the whole sea a-sparkle with light and movement, she felt little sickness at all;"
- "[…] I kept hoping for the film to spin back to the moment where my aunt materialized asparkle with the gems previously the property of the rabbi's late wife."
Etymology
From a- + sparkle.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: a
Inflected Forms
a-sparkle (alternative)