doodad
/ˈduːdæd/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.45 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "My mom has a clever doodad for peeling oranges."
- "Of course I eat an apple every evening—an apple a day keeps the doctor away—but still, you ought to have more prunes, and not all these fancy doodads."
- "The room was too big, the ceiling was too high, the doors were too tall, and the white carpet that went from wall to wall looked like a fresh fall of snow at Lake Arrowhead. There were full-length mirrors and crystal doodads all over the place."
- "The reason is that not all bomblets explode as they’re meant to, and thousands of small, unexploded grenades can lie around for years, even decades, before somebody — often, a child spotting a brightly colored, battery-size doodad on the ground — accidentally sets it off."