ranchette
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A small ranch or large home lot, often on the outskirts of a major metropolitan area and just past the planned neighborhoods, consisting of 40 acres and a house and possibly a barn or other outbuildings.
Example Sentences
- "There are trace elements of ranchettes all the way to St. Cloud, the Stearns County seat."
Etymology
From ranch + -ette.