seax
/ˈsiːks/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.13 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
4
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The Pugio or Dagger was used by the Romans, a species of that weapon called the Hand Seax was worn by the Saxons, with which they massacred the English on Salisbury Plain in 476."
- "It consisted of the arms of the City of London, Middlesex (three seaxes, or Saxon swords), Buckingham (a swan), and Hertford (a hart), arranged quarterly, on a background of crimson and ermine mantling […]."