wakizashi
/wɑkɪˈzɑʃi/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.43 in modern English
28
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Hiro shoves Reason back into the zodiac, jumps in, and starts the motor. He doesn’t have time to untie the boat from the pontoon, so he snaps through the line with his wakizashi and takes off."
- "And that was how it went. For five hours. I must have swung a thousand times yet never managed to bring the golem’s health to 0. They had really fast regen. I couldn’t hit fast or hard enough. That changed when Leo showed up. He let me borrow his weapons—a katana and a wakizashi, both made of prismarine. I sliced through that golem like it was butter. Softened butter that had less resistance."
Etymology
From Japanese 脇差(わきざし) (wakizashi).
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /wɑkɪˈzɑʃi/
- British English: /wækɪˈzæʃi/