short short
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.03 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A very short film, typically of a length less than three minutes.
noun
Example Sentences
- "Fifty Short Shorts. An omnibus of entertaining short short stories by America’s favorite tellers of tales"
- "Verga’s Wolf cannot but repeat her passions, Tolstoy’s Alyosha his passivity. Themes of obsession work especially well in this kind of short short."
- "The most often cited example of a classical short-short, Petronius’ “The Widow of Ephesus,” is no rude prototype."