Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

face brick

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.22 in modern English

Syllables: face brick
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

1

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A type of high quality brick used for the fronts of buildings; also, in collective sense, as a type of building material.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"I can recall all the small particulars of that disturbing summer night. The blue lamp in front of the face-brick building."

Usage

Inflected Forms

face bricks (plural) facebrick (alternative) face-brick (alternative)

Questions

What does face brick mean?: A type of high quality brick used for the fronts of buildings; also, in collective sense, as a type of building material.

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