Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cape tribulation

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.72 in modern English

Syllables: cape tribu-la-tion
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

3

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A headland and coastal locality in the Shire of Douglas, northern Queensland, Australia.

Example Sentences

"I live in a quintessential (Australian) building type myself - a high-set 'Queenslander' on Captain Cook's tropical Cape Tribulation coast - and some of the details I love most about it are its Deco influences - [...]."

Etymology

Named by Captain James Cook for the "tribulation" caused when his ship ran aground on a reef.

Questions

What does cape tribulation mean?: A headland and coastal locality in the Shire of Douglas, northern Queensland, Australia.
Where does cape tribulation come from?: Named by Captain James Cook for the "tribulation" caused when his ship ran aground on a reef.

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