flagstaff
/ˈflæɡstæf/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.90 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A city, the county seat of Coconino County, Arizona, United States.
Example Sentences
- "Snowball had found in the harness-room an old green tablecloth of Mrs. Jones's and had painted on it a hoof and a horn in white. This was run up the flagstaff in the farmhouse garden every Sunday morning."
- "1988, Rhodes Boyson, Hansard, 7 June, 1988, Criminal Justice Bill, https://web.archive.org/web/20190212095659/https://www.hansard-corpus.org/ The abolition of the death penalty has been the flagstaff of the permissive society. We know what that has meant for the people of this country. Local newspapers are full of articles about robbery, murder, rape and, literally, pillage."
- "The renaissance of downtown Flagstaff brought new life to its old brick buildings in the form of hip new places to eat, drink and sleep."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈflæɡstæf/
- British English: /ˈflæɡstɑːf/