dead of night
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.05 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Write loyal cantons of contemnèd love / And sing them loud even in the dead of night."
- "I was feeling just as I had felt in the old Malvern House epoch when I used to sneak down to [the schoolmaster]'s study at dead of night in quest of the biscuits he kept there in a tin on his desk, and there came back to me the memory of the occasion when, not letting a twig snap beneath my feet, I had entered his sanctum in pyjamas and a dressing-gown, to find him seated in his chair, tucking into the biscuits himself."
- "Blackbird singing in the dead of night / Take these broken wings and learn to fly"
Inflected Forms
dead of the night (alternative)