copter
/ˈkɑptɚ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.46 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "2005, Sin City (the film), Shellie shouts something I can't quite make out over the racket of a passing police copter."
- "The sidelong whiplash of his arm sent the boomerang soaring, pushing the sky to the horizon until the blade just hung there, a black slash on the sun so far away it seemed not to move at all before it came whirling back larger and larger: would it hit him, would he die — and you ducked down, terrified, clinging to his thigh, its deathspin slowing as it coptered softly down and he snatched it from the air."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈkɑptɚ/
- British English: /ˈkɒptə/