truff
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The sea trout (a fish of the species Salmo trutta morpha trutta, closely related to salmon).
Archaic; Countable; Uncountable
noun
A long stone that goes through the full thickness of a stone wall.
Example Sentences
- "The town is famous for its earth-nuts or truffs, and for the beauty of its women, who are ſaid to excel thoſe of any other part of Italy."
- "One of these pools is designated par excellence the otter pool, for as surely as the truff appear, so surely do the strong hovers hold an otter, nay, sometimes a brace or more, in attendance on the prey so bountifully supplied to them."