knock-knock
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.05 in modern English
30
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Knock-knock. / Who's there? / Wendy. / Wendy who? / Wendy you want to open the door?"
- "Formally, the poll tax will die today, but it will carry on knock-knocking from the grave."
- "The reporter also knock-knocked his house."
- "A golden-backed woodpecker knock-knocked on a tree while whistling ducks flew overhead; there were few other people."
- "We used a special clicking noise — like a knock-knocking sound. So she'd chat with me and allow me to stroke her beak."
- "For the Philharmonic and its subscribers, the essential thing was to get the acoustics right, which is a task of near impossible complexity. What kind of space can do justice, say, to the plunks and skittering knock-knocks in Lou Harrison’s Concerto in Slendro and also to the sustained, exalted moan of Mahler’s Fifth Symphony?"