wavelet
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.39 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A fast-decaying oscillation.
Example Sentences
- "1851, “Speaker’s Meaning dimly descried” (Fragment) in Poems, London: William Pickering, p. 110, I know not whether I see your meaning: if I do, it lies Upon the wordy wavelets of your voice, Dim as an evening shadow in a brook, When the least moon has silver on’t no larger Than the pure white of Hebe’s nail."
- "1856, Herman Melville, “The Piazza” in The Piazza Tales, New York: Dix & Edwards, pp. 6-7, […] long ground-swells roll the slanting grain, and little wavelets of grass ripple over upon the low piazza, as their beach, and the blown down of dandelions is wafted like the spray […]"
- "The water danced and sparkled, multitudes of birds were on the wing, now dipping in the wavelets, now rising and shaking off the glittering drops."
- "They sat on the beach and watched the hissing wavelets."
- "A little, rubbishy wavelet, full of candy wrappers and orange peel and seaweed, folded over my foot."
- "They left the shop in a united wavelet of amusement […]"