half a dozen
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.31 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
num
Six (6); often used approximatively.
num
Example Sentences
- "Anstruther laughed good-naturedly. “[…] I shall take out half a dozen intelligent maistries from our Press and get them to give our villagers instruction when they begin work and when they are in the fields.”"
- "The good news is that £800 million is allocated to new rolling stock, £200m for stations (including six new ones), and a further £736m to transform the Valley Lines, a network of half-a-dozen services that run up the valleys from Cardiff."