common cachalot
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.37 in modern English
27
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Synonym of sperm whale.
Example Sentences
- "However that may be, so much is certain, that when Sibbald considered this Cetacean which had only teeth in the lower jaw, and whose very great head contained a large quantity of spermaceti, to be a species different from the common cachalots, as well as from the one stranded in the Firth of Forth, he did so because there was a dorsal fin present, and by no means on account of its supposed great height."