direwolf
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.81 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative form of dire wolf.
Example Sentences
- "Don’t stray too far. There are direwolves about. I saw their tracks earlier in the day. They’d eat your like for supper and wonder where the rest of the meal was."
- "“Pretty dangerous, kid, I mean walking the trail alone.” The elderly driver smacked his lips as he launched into a litany of doom. “Get lost easily enough. Get eaten by direwolves. Landslides and avalanches. And . . .”"
- "An army, deep carven: men like the tribesmen of the north, tall and high-nosed and proud; chariots drawn by strange beasts, cats and broad-horned bulls and winged direwolves; women riding upon huge birds."
- "Possibly the most unchanged and perfect fossil bones are those from Pleistocene mammals and birds entombed in the tar pits of Rancho La Brea in Los Angeles. […] Before they disappeared forever, their carcasses attracted predatory direwolves, sabretooth cats and scavenging vultures, all of which also became trapped and died."