boardshorts
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.57 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A style of typically knee-length lightweight shorts worn generally by males as swimwear and for surfing.
Example Sentences
- "But the appeal of the label — now sold at surf shops in 19 states and 12 countries — is that its black boardshorts and no-frills logos both bypass the sport’s floral sartorial clichés and also, for those in the know, summon up a hard-core, roots surfer image of riders like those Da Hui underwrites."