argot
noun
Meaning
- nounA secret language or conventional slang peculiar to thieves, tramps and vagabonds.
- nounThe specialized informal vocabulary and terminology used between people with special skill in a field, such as between doctors, mathematicians or hackers.
Example:
The conversation was in the argot of the trade, full of acronyms and abbreviations that made no sense to the uninitiate.
- nounA strongly marked style of speaking.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Five-letter puzzle facts
- How common
- Less common
- #2,748 of 8,600 five-letter words by how often they're used
- Can be a Play Five answer
- As a first guess
- Tests likely letters better than 84% of common five-letter words.
- Vowels: 2 · Different letters: 5 · Repeated letters: None