x factor
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.56 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An unknown or hard-to-define influence; a factor with unknown or unforeseeable consequences.
noun
noun
The proportionality constant which converts CO emission line brightness to molecular hydrogen mass.
noun
Alternative spelling of X factor.
Example Sentences
- "We slid into our office, past two women discussing the "X factor," an apparently undefined quality their firm felt they lacked."
- "The map can be misleading. It can appear to contain all the relevant information, but in real life, there is always an X factor."
- "And put him on an LA film set and he glowed with that indefinable X-factor that agents the world over wished they could bottle."
- "Whether it's trade, global warming, Darfur or North Korea, China has become the new x''' factor, without which no durable solution is possible."