platz
/plˈæts/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.39 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A public square in Germany.
Example Sentences
- "Lilly loves everything about John Platz! He feeds her, walks her, gives her treats, and she even takes an afternoon nap with him!"
- "Frecklington also announced the appointment of former Queensland police officer Deborah Platz as the state’s new human rights commissioner, succeeding Scott McDougall, who criticised both sides of politics over a range of issues, particularly the state’s youth law and order crackdown."
- "There is a yiddish^([sic]) verb, to platz – roughly, it means to be on tenterhooks, just with all the emotional and physical incontinence that you’d expect from a language that deals principally in uncomfortable extremes. But platzing is not an Olympic sport."
- "And across Europe, there’ll be players and supporters platzing for exactly that: a positive result here, followed by a win for Belgium over Finland later on, and three points plus a goal difference of 0 will be enough to secure a spot in the knockout stage."
- "We sit at a cafe in the crisp morning air, looking down the gradually descending town square towards the gothically vertiginous fifteenth-century St Egidius church. The platz is ringed by steeply gabled pastel burghers' houses and in the centre sits the medieval town hall."
- "Once the most German and Old World flavored of the platzes, Festplatz strays from its all-polka-all-the-time roots once again to to offer five nights of variety, including funk/pop, rock ‘n’ roll, country, oldies and swing."