hercule poirot
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.37 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A detective.
Example Sentences
- ""Congratulations. You are the Hercule Poirot of Winchester." Quinn's leaning away, arms crossed; she doesn't want to talk about this. But you can't always get what you want."
- "But Akunin picks a new genre, for his Seagull is a murder mystery. Treplev does not commit suicide, as he does at the end of Chekhov's play; rather, he is killed, and the remainder of the play consists of a series of tableaux, each featuring a different, plausible murderer. The Hercule Poirot of the play is Doctor Dorn - who himself turns out to be one of the possible murderers. An animal rights activist, he objected to Treplev's habit of shooting things, including a seagull."
- "No wonder that he describes himself as the Hercule Poirot of archaeology—a detective who seeks the solution by looking at all the evidence without any preconceptions."
Etymology
Inflected Forms
Hercule Poirots (plural)