lieutenant-commander
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.17 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
19
Letters
7
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "He entered the United States Navy in 1841, and stood 33 in the list of Lieutenant-Commanders."
- "He suddenly fulfilled us. He was the expected officer, a junior Lieutenant-Commander. That must have been how he slipped so unchallenged, even fêted, past my father’s defences – who thought it was himself the American visited, the American with the matinee idol’s line moustache, like Errol Flynn’s."
- "He rose from ensign to lieutenant-commander and by the war’s end, he captained his own ship."