dallas
/ˈdæləs/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.42 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
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Example Sentences
- "The chicken chain’s parent company, Yum Brands, announced Tuesday that KFC’s corporate headquarters is leaving Kentucky for Texas, joining sister brand Pizza Hut’s offices in the Dallas suburb of Plano."
- "The men, 37-year-old Matthew Allison and 34-year-old Dallas Humber, are the leaders of an online White supremacist group called the Terrorgram Collective, prosecutors say."
Etymology
# The Texas city was named after George M. Dallas, vice president to Polk; family name is evolved from dalhous (13th c.), meaning "dweller at the house in the dale," from dale + house. # The Scottish place-name is from Pictish, equivalent to Welsh dôl (“meadow, haugh”) + gwas (“abode”).
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