ville
/ˈvɪl/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.14 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Once we fanned over a little ville that had just been airstruck and the words of a song by Wingy Manone that I’d heard when I was a few years old snapped into my head, “Stop the War, These Cats Is^([sic]) Killing Themselves.”"
- "The fighting holes and trenches scattered in and around each ville indicate battle after battle - some only planned, others fought. We move toward a tree-lined ville."
- "On Halloween, this real hot spooky night, the dude paints up his body all different colors and puts on this weird mask and hikes over to a ville and goes trick-or-treating almost stark naked, just boots and balls and an M-16."
- "Abᵗ 12, We left Sᵗ Malo & came to Hedé that night 9 Leagues (bayting onely at Sᵗ Pierre a pretty Ville) where we were well lodged & found Mʳ Macartie (Irlandois) the Curé."
- "Found my classmate Means at Amherst [Mass.]. . . . Amherst is a very pleasant little ville, but still and inactive. There is some very good land around it. There is no academic school in the place."
- "We made a long round back to vile,**^([sic]) and the night bein’ cold and windy I pulled the blyhunker†† hup under a wall and lit the darkey to sample the swag before goin’ any further—which I allus make a p’int o’ doin’."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: French
Word Breakdown
- Root: ville
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈvɪl/
Usage
- American usage