nerve-wrack
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.21 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "Dull and heavy, but with his headache and nerve-wrack gone. Billy sauntered out into the street."
- "It lies just where it can be of most service to our workaday world in short spells of rest from the nerve-wrack of the week, though that is not to say that there are not innumerable retreats amid hills, dales and woodlands where those in need of rest and healing may linger and "fleet the time carelessly as they did in the golden world.""
- "Where too often a suburban street may suggest the opening pageant of a mask ball, here is something picturesque without motley, interesting without nerve-wrack."