passel
/ˈpæsl/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.87 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "That child will like as not come here with a passel o' things borrowed from the rest o' the family. She'll have Hannah's shoes and John's undershirts and Mark's socks most likely."
- "A fist-pumping, howling passel of Bush administration officials."
- "Marking each baby with a different color is another way for rehabbers to tell who's who in a passel of possums."
- "I could tell by the look on his face that he was mighty proud of his passel of possums."
- "At the first symptoms of trouble, we'll be down upon 'em like a passel of 'possums on a couple of persimmons."
- "Marius, an elder from Bayau, explained this to me as we sat in the shade of a sago palm watching a passel of possums jostling in the canopy."