safety match
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.74 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The invention of the Lucifer Match has brought with it many dangers. In one year, in London, there were published thirty-nine accounts of serious conflagrations through children playing with lucifers, the igniting of the matches, and the careless use of them... To guard against the recurrence of these sad results has been invented "the Safety Match," or a match which cannot ignite by friction with ordinary substances, but which bursts into flame when struck upon a chemically prepared strip, without which the matches may be struck or trodden upon without the possibility of ignition."
Inflected Forms
Frequently Paired Words
Synonyms
safety light
book matches