ghost story
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.38 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A story about ghosts or the supernatural, often meant to be frightening.
Example Sentences
- "In all smuggling places ghost stories abound. Can it be that they were invented to keep law-abiding folk behind closed doors at night, when the deeds were being done?"
- "There are the books full of Underground ghost stories. An invisible runner pounds along the platforms at Elephant & Castle; children scream in the basement of what used to be the surface building of Hyde Park Corner, [...]"