Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

such as

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.79 in modern English

Syllables: such as
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

1

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

prep

prep

Like, of the kind mentioned.

Example Sentences

"Waterbirds, such as the duck or the gull, are common in the area."
"The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters such as ostrich, wild boar and crocodile."
"I was never in a country such as that."
"A plan such as you propose will never succeed."
"[…] the benighted stranger […] might have easily […] mistaken the hospitable mansion for a good, old-fashioned inn, such as have faded from this earth since the last mail coach and prancing tits took their last melancholy journey to the knacker's yard."
"No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or[…]. And at last I began to realize in my harassed soul that all elusion was futile, and to take such holidays as I could get, when he was off with a girl, in a spirit of thankfulness."

Synonyms

for example for instance e.g. like

Questions

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