Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

model t

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.95 in modern English

Syllables: mod-el t
IPA

9

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The first car made by the Ford Motor Company on an assembly line. Before the Model T, cars were mostly made painstakingly by hand. The Model T helped popularize automobiling for the masses; it is widely considered the model that most did so.

Example Sentences

"a Model T moment"
"the Model T of [device category X]"
"This institution is no Model T."
"In the first of a series of almost ceremonial deaths, one Indian rams his model T into an imitation totem pole."
"Jerked my thumb at a Model T, So-and-so wouldn't stop for me."
"I can find no internal evidence that the journey was not made in the back seat of a Model T with the curtains drawn—except that the style is painfully pedestrian."

Synonyms

T tin Lizzie

Questions

What does model t mean?: The first car made by the Ford Motor Company on an assembly line. Before the Model T, cars were mostly made painstakingly by hand. The Model T helped popularize automobiling for the masses; it is widely considered the model that most did so.

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