id
/aɪˈdiː/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.61 in modern English
3
Scrabble Score
2
Letters
1
Syllables
2
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Show me your ID."
- "The keys are not as flat and offer more space between them. Better yet, you still maintain a physical row of function keys (including ESC) and the Touch ID sensor is still here."
- "If not done at the top of the hour, however, the station ID should come at the next possible break in the programme."
- "Police have been unable to ID the body found in the river."
- "I know you’ve already ID’d us as cops, so that’s DC Daniels and I’m Henry Christie."
- "The bartender will have to ID you before serving you a drink."
Etymology
From New Latin id (“it”), chosen by Freud’s translator as a translation of his use of German Es (“it”) as a noun for this concept from the pronoun es (“it”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Usage
Inflected Forms
IDs (plural)
IDs (present, singular)
ID's (present, singular)
IDing (participle, present)
ID'ing (participle, present)
IDed (participle, past)
IDed (past)
ID'ed (participle, past)
ID'ed (past)
ID'd (participle, past)
ID'd (past)