wild west
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.68 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
The western United States during the 19th-century era of settlement, commonly believed to be lawless and unruly.
noun
A place or situation in which disorderly behavior prevails, especially due to a lack of regulatory oversight or an inadequate legal system.
noun
Alternative letter-case form of Wild West
Example Sentences
- "There were earlier Wild Wests too, of course, before the one that gave up gunplay for legal finagling."
- "But apart from the Irish appreciation of creative criminality and outlawry's close association with wild wests, simply read again the title of Patrick Ford's newspaper: the Irish World and American Industrial Liberator."
- "In the wild west of the Internet, states have been reluctant to work together for this common purpose. One example of closer state coordination came in 2011 at the London Conference on Cyberspace […]"
- "In the Wild West of “influencer” marketing, there are few protections and plenty of easy marks."
Inflected Forms
the Wild West (canonical)
Wild Wests (plural)