chortling
/ˈt͡ʃoɹtəlɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.84 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "She laughed—and then started, realizing how long it had been since she'd heard the sound of her own laughter. Real laughter, not the bitter chortlings she'd taken to indulging in."
- "This “feminist chortling” (as she [Rebecca Solnit] calls it) about the disgraced royal is right in the bailiwick of the writer who virtually invented the term mansplaining."
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈt͡ʃoɹtəlɪŋ/