black rent
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.53 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "[F]rom whose rich domains in Meath he received a “black rent” equivalent to £10,000 a year[.]"
- "[N]othing could have preserved them from total extirpation but the assistance afforded them by the other Irish princes and tribes, whose friendship and protection they purchased by paying them a tribute, or black rent, as it was called."
- "[S]he pays me the black rent, and I let her alone[.]"