Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

backweight

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: back-weight
IPA

25

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A weight attached to the back of a golf club to give it a lower centre of gravity.

Example Sentences

"Fashioned with shafts of aged hickory, ash or lemonwood, these early clubs have heads with an insert of ram’s horn or a lead backweight."

Etymology

From back + weight.

Inflected Forms

backweights (plural)

Questions

What does backweight mean?: A weight attached to the back of a golf club to give it a lower centre of gravity.
Where does backweight come from?: From back + weight.

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