Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

tramcar

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.60 in modern English

Syllables: tram-car
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

noun

A rail vehicle for carrying loads in a mine; a tram.

Example Sentences

"A style guide of the 1930s for journalists on the Daily Express tried to bring trams upmarket by insisting they be called 'tramcars'."
"We arrived at level 15 where we piled into a battery powered tramcar for a ten minute ride to the section of the mine we would be visiting. Packed into the tram we realized why the gigantic cooling and ventilation systems on the surface pumps 550 cubic meters of air into the mine each second."

Etymology

From tram + car.

Inflected Forms

tramcars (plural)

Synonyms

mine car ore car streetcar tram trolley trolley car

Questions

What does tramcar mean?: A streetcar.
Where does tramcar come from?: From tram + car.

How to pronounce tramcar

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