paper-weight
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.74 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "I followed them to my study, and found lying on my writing-table still, with the selenite paper-weight upon it, the sheet of work I had left on the afternoon of the opening of the cylinder."
- "Richey had picked up a paper-weight and was tossing it from hand to hand; when it slipped and fell to the floor, a startled shudder passed through the room."
- "Instead he played with his paper-weights; he had quite a collection of Victorian ones and others, a few specimens of which he kept out on his desk."