astrazeneca
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.43 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Have you been injected with AstraZeneca, la la la la la?"
- "Just a few weeks ago at TVO.org, I wrote about the anecdotes I’d been hearing of people who were outside of the targeted age range getting AstraZeneca doses at pharmacies lest vaccine spoil."
- "I am over the age of 60. I have a choice of AstraZeneca, AstraZeneca or AstraZeneca - or die of Covid."
- ""Mixing and matching, so for example, two AstraZenecas, and then a Pfizer, or even one AstraZeneca and a Pfizer, actually gives a really good immune response," he said."
Etymology
From AstraZeneca, a pharmaceutical and biotechnology company that created the vaccine. The company name was formed by the merger of Astra AB and Zeneca. Astra is from Ancient Greek ᾰ̓́στρον (ắstron, “star”), whereas Zeneca, the company stated, “is an invented name, created by an agency instructed to find a name which began with a letter from either the top or bottom of the alphabet and was phonetically memorable, of no more than three syllables and did not have an offensive meaning in any language.”
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: ᾰ̓́στρον