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five-way

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.34 in modern English

Syllables
five-way
IPA
19
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A serving of Cincinnati chili with spaghetti, cheese, onions, and beans.

Etymology

Coined in the 1920s by Tom and John Kiradjieff, Slavic-Macedonian immigrants to Cincinnati, for their Empress Chili chain.

Inflected Forms

five-ways (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

three-way four-way six-way

Questions

What does five-way mean?
A serving of Cincinnati chili with spaghetti, cheese, onions, and beans.
Where does five-way come from?
Coined in the 1920s by Tom and John Kiradjieff, Slavic-Macedonian immigrants to Cincinnati, for their Empress Chili chain.

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