machete
/məˈʃɛ.ti/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.15 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Near-synonyms: (all sometimes or regionally synonymous) bolo, golok, panga, parang, sundang"
- "It breaks loose one rope at a time, haphazardly, tossing the Filipinos up into the air. A boy with a machete cuts the one remaining line, which pops up and lashes him across the face."
- "After some hours of intense work, we had macheted a path through the jungle to the bank of the river."
Etymology
From Spanish machete, diminutive of macho (“sledgehammer”), from Latin mattea, possibly from mactare (“slaughter in sacrifice”); cognate with Old French machier, French massue, English mace.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: machete, mattea