jump scare
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.98 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "They'd do something horrible, maybe kill off a few protagonists, and then make people sit around waiting for the next terrible thing to come along. They called it “setting up a jump scare.”"
- "Drag Me to Hell capitalizes on the jump scare, scattering it liberally throughout the film to the point where it becomes almost numbing."
- "This quiet is broken suddenly with an initial jump scare of the puppet's iconic laughter."
- "white woman jump scare"
- "The loud knock at the door gave me a terrible jump scare."