word nerd
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.65 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A person who is very fond of and knowledgeable about words, their uses, origins and histories, and who typically excels at anagrams, crosswords, and other word games.
Example Sentences
- "There was no denying it: After years of being on the fringes of the national SCRABBLE® scene, I had become a bona fide “word nerd.”"
- "This admitted word nerd has dug deeply into dusty dictionaries[.]"
- "If you're a true word nerd and the definitions you get from an average dictionary just aren't satisfying, then what you need is the Oxford English Dictionary[.]"
- "“Is that some word nerd thing?” I chuckled. “You would not believe how much controversy there is over something as simple as whether or not to put a comma before the word 'and' at the end of a list.”"