Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

personal defense weapon

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.33 in modern English

Syllables: per-son-al de-fense weapon
IPA

32

Scrabble Score

21

Letters

4

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A compact fully-automatic or semi-automatic firearm similar to a submachine gun but firing a rifle round.

Inflected Forms

personal defense weapons (plural) personal defence weapon (alternative)

Derived Forms

PDW

Synonyms

PDW

Questions

What does personal defense weapon mean?: A compact fully-automatic or semi-automatic firearm similar to a submachine gun but firing a rifle round.

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