wax-candle
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.60 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "To determine to what the ordinary variations in the quantity of light emitted by a common wax-candle might amount , I took such a candle , and , lighting it and placed it before the photometer, […]"
- "The artist said: "Well! you'll go out and buy for me five francs' worth of wax-candles while I go and see the cooper.""
- "There was a delicate scent of dried rose-leaves; the light by which the minister was reading was a wax-candle in a white earthenware candle-stick, […]"
- "No wax-candle can shine like two childish eyes!"
Etymology
From Middle English wax-candul, waxe candel, wax candill, from Old English weaxcandel, equivalent to wax + candle.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: wax-candul, weaxcandel
Inflected Forms
wax-candles (plural)
wax candle (alternative)