cañon
/kˈænən/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.92 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "[…]we walked some little distance up the cañon on the frozen river[…]"
- "He was only proving what the sage-riders had long said of this labyrinthine system of deceitful cañons and valleys—trails led down into Deception Pass, but no rider had ever followed them."
- "Steadily it ascended toward the mountains, into which they filed through a narrow cañon close to noon."
- "The morning after this decision, I started up the cañon of Tenaya, caring little about the quantity of bread I carried; for, I thought, a fast and a storm and a difficult cañon were just the medicine I needed."
- "the cañons and upland pine parks and snowy peaks and cliff dwellings round Flagstaff"