waw
/wɔː/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.40 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
2
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A wall.
noun
The twenty-seventh letter of the Arabic alphabet: و.
noun
Alternative spelling of vav.
Example Sentences
- "[…] nigh it drawes All passengers, that none from it can shift: For whiles they fly that Gulfes deuouring iawes, They on this rock are rent, and sunck in helplesse wawes."
- "She hath been at London to call a strea a straw, and a waw a wall."
- "T'ootside waws was whitewesh't."
- "Rather, the waws of both fragments are demonstrably similar. What Cryer and Becking fail to note is that the style of waw used in Fragment B is also used in Fragment A."
Etymology
From Middle English wawen, waȝien, from Old English wagian (“to move, shake, swing, totter”), from Proto-West Germanic *wagōn, from Proto-Germanic *wagōną (“to move”), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ- (“to drag, carry”). Cognate with German wagen (“to venture, dare, risk”), Dutch wagen (“to venture, dare, also to move, stir”), Swedish våga (“to dare”).