wordhoard
/ˈwɜɹdˌhoɹd/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Vocabulary; the totality of words of a language or a person.
noun
Example Sentences
- "Wordiness is not usually considered a virtue any more than impurity is; but words are the wealth of English, and the riches of its word-hoard are only paralleled by the riches of the Anglo-American nations."
- "Emerson came, unlocking his word hoard on nature and friendship and compensation, and irradiating his thoughts'with that peculiar slow smile that was like the emerging of the sun from behind a cloud."
- "Beowulf unlocked his word hoard. “We come, indeed, from across the sea.”"
- "Primary additions to the wordhoard tend to come from commercial sources[.]"
- "Still, in spite of the sensation of being caught between a ‘shield-wall’ of opaque references and a ‘word-hoard’ that is old and strange, such readers are also bound to feel a certain ‘shock of the new’."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈwɜɹdˌhoɹd/