snowden
/ˈsnoʊ.dən/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.44 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
An unincorporated community in Lincoln County, West Virginia, United States.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "[D]isclosures about America's own focus on cyberweaponry – including American-led attacks on Iran's nuclear infrastructure and National Security Agency documents revealed in the trove taken by Edward J. Snowden, the former agency contractor – detail the degree to which the United States has engaged in what the intelligence world calls "cyberexploitation" of targets in China."
- "Evidence that the NSA was secretly building a vast database of U.S. telephone records - the who, the how, the when, and the where of millions of mobile calls - was the first and arguably the most explosive of the Snowden revelations published by the Guardian newspaper in 2013."
Etymology
From Snowdon.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈsnoʊ.dən/
- British English: /ˈsnəʊ.dən/