Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun four-letter_word

1 sense of four-letter word

Sense 1
four-letter word, four-letter Anglo-Saxon word -- (any of several short English words (often having 4 letters) generally regarded as obscene or offensive)
       => word -- (a unit of language that native speakers can identify; "words are the blocks from which sentences are made"; "he hardly said ten words all morning")