jihadi
/d͡ʒɪˈhɑːdi/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.89 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A jihadist.
adj
pertaining to jihad or jihadism
Example Sentences
- "What is unbearable, in fact, is the feeling, 13 years after 9/11, that America has been chasing its tail; that, in some whack-a-mole horror show, the quashing of a jihadi enclave here only spurs the sprouting of another there; that the ideology of Al Qaeda is still reverberating through a blocked Arab world whose Sunni-Shia balance (insofar as that went) was upended by the American invasion of Iraq."
- "Yet people are miserable and disillusioned, joining jihadi groups in among the largest numbers per capita of any country in the world, and making up the majority of boat-borne migrants to Italy this year."