tinder
/ˈtɪn.dɚ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.69 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Small dry sticks and finely-divided fibrous matter etc., used to help light a fire.
Countable; Uncountable
name
A surname.
name
An online dating and geosocial networking application, launched in 2012, in which users "swipe right" to like or "swipe left" to dislike other users' profiles.
Example Sentences
- "Strike on the Tinder, hoa: / Giue me a Taper: […]"
- "Is heaven a murderer when its lightning strikes a would-be murderer in his bed, tindering sheets and skin together?"
- "So sure, she’s a romantic, but quite a pragmatic one. “I was just thinking, ‘You know what? I’ve had shit luck with boys. I’ll try Tinder, Bumble and Love Island.’”"
- "Famously, Tinder gamified the search for love, introducing that addictive swipe feature to its target audience: millennials."
- "I haven't been Tindering or doing the Plenty of Fish thing in quite some time because I've been seeing Date #2, and he's lovely. […] I'm not Tindering or frequenting POF because my heart still belongs to him, but up pops a message on the Friday night."
- "With Tinder, the pretext is to hook-up, but the real pleasure is derived from the Tindering process. […] Summing up the Tindering experience, Tinderers would rather judge 50 pictures in two minutes than spend 50 minutes assessing one potential partner in a traditional face-on-face dating environment."
Etymology
From Middle English tinder, tunder, tender, tonder, from Old English tynder, from Proto-Germanic *tundrą, *tundrǭ (“tinder”). Compare Saterland Frisian Tunder (“tinder”), Dutch tonder (“tinder”), German Zunder (“tinder”), Swedish tända (“to light, to set on fire”). More at tind.
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Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈtɪn.dɚ/
- British English: /ˈtɪn.dəː/