Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

dancerette

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: dancerette
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

1

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A female dancer.

Example Sentences

"The dance program at Caledonia Saturday evening lasted but one hour and 51 minutes. As one dancerette expressed it “They’re chintsey.”"
"I was a dancerette back in the day.[…]We dancerettes never got to see whether we won or they did — we were told the outcome."
"So, when his mother — a debutante dancerette who ran with the Very Coolest Kids in a high school near Temple Terrace at the dawn of the disco era — attempted to warn him against exhibiting evidence of lameness, he cut her off."

Etymology

From dancer + -ette.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: dancer

Inflected Forms

dancerettes (plural)

Synonyms

danceress

Questions

What does dancerette mean?: A female dancer.
Where does dancerette come from?: From dancer + -ette.

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