A $1 word (one dollar word) is a word for which the cent values of its letters sum up to $1. To take a few examples, you may want to verify that "maximize" and "reciprocal" are $1 words. In English, there are several hundred $1 words.
Description. ONE DOLLAR WORDS are any words that have a value of exactly $1 when the letters are added together using these values: a = 1¢, b = 2¢, ... z = 26¢.
Essentially, all you have to do is pick a word and then convert each letter in that word into a number based on its order in the alphabet. So A=1, B=2, C=3... Z=26. Once you've done that, simply add the numbers together, trying to find a word that adds to 100.
As an example, "thirty" has a one dollar word value of $1.00. Taking $1.00 as "one hundred", that has a one dollar word value of $1.08.
Terupt's famous "Dollar Words" challenge. In the book, Mr. Terupt challenges his fifth grade class to come up with as many "Dollar Words" as possible. Basically, each letter of the alphabet represents a cent, so A= $0.01, B=$0.02, C=$0.03, and so on.
I tacked on the s. There wasn't just one butthead but two buttheads (dollar word). I was just about to call out that I had found one when Peter beat me to it. “I've got a word!” he yelled.
Noun. ten-dollar word (plural ten-dollar words) (US, idiomatic) A long and uncommon word used in place of a shorter and simpler one with the intent to appear sophisticated.
13 in words is written as “Thirteen”.
AUD (Australian Dollar)
The word dollar is the Anglicized version of the German word thaler (Czech tolar and Dutch word daalder or daler), a shortened version of the word Joachimthalers. The word thaler comes from the German root “thal” which means valley and “thaler” indicates a person or thing from the valley.
Five Dollar Words (and the most valuable word in the English language) Mark Twain said it best. “Don't use a five dollar word when a fifty cent one will do. ”
It means a difficult or impressive word. I think the Mark Twain quote might be just him playing with words. Like he's saying don't try too hard to be impressive when you can be impressive doing something less.
What is a 4-dollar word? Idiom. Usually a long, multi syllabic word that is not commonly heard in every day speech. Examples: Using “disambiguate” rather than “clarify” or “make clear,” or saying “defenestrate” rather than “push out of a window.” Defenestrate is a 4 dollar word.
10 dollar words are the fancy words that you think make you look smart. You hope that by including a longer, more complicated word than you need, readers will go: “Oooh, sounds like she really knows her stuff!”
1111 in words is written as One thousand one hundred eleven. In both the International System of Numerals and the Indian System of Numerals, 1111 is written as One thousand one hundred eleven.
According to Merriam-Webster, a fifty-cent word is “an obscure word used to describe a simple idea thus making the user self-important.” Despite the negative connotation, I don't think using such words is always a bad thing. They can help you say what you mean and challenge your reader, just a bit.
Noun. ten-cent word (plural ten-cent words) (idiomatic) A short and common word used in place of a longer and more uncommon one.
The world's longest scientific word
As we saw at the start of our hunt, the longest word according to a lot of sources is the technical name for the protein titin. It is the same across all languages and has nearly 200,000 letters. Here's a snippet of the first 4,000 characters!
Australia's colourful bank notes are known by many colloquial names. The twenty-dollar note is referred to as a lobster, while the fifty-dollar note is called a pineapple, and don't we all want to get our hands on a few jolly green giants, that is, hundred-dollar notes?
The fifty dollar note is called a Pineapple, and a hundred dollar note a 'jolly green giant” or a lime or even a 'green tree frog'.
A dollar word is one whose total value is exactly 100 when each of its letters is assigned a value according to its position in the alphabet: a=1, b=2, ..., z=26. Some examples of dollar words are: contented, cookout, mittens and shadowing.