crisscrossed
/kɹˈɪskɹˌɔst/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.25 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Marked by lines crossing in two or more directions.
verb
simple past and past participle of crisscross
Example Sentences
- "Don't tell me I lost a step / Criss-crossed in the wrong direction / Found myself in a conversation / From a missed connection"
- "As I crisscrossed managerial circles in different corporations, becoming known in some segments of the corporate world and running into managers that I had met in the course of my search, often in odd places, my personal contacts increased as managers referred me to each other."
Inflected Forms
more crisscrossed (comparative)
most crisscrossed (superlative)