Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

double planet

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.51 in modern English

Syllables: dou-ble -plan-et
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A planet with a moon large enough to be considered a planet, were the planet not there, having a substantial portion of the system's overall mass.

noun

A pair of planemos in orbit around each other, where the barycenter of their orbits lies outside of both planemos, which in turn is in orbit about a star.

noun

A pair of planemos in orbit around each other, where the barycenter of their orbits lies outside of both planemos.

noun

A planemo with a moon large enough to be considered a planemo, having a substantial portion of the system's overall mass.

Inflected Forms

double planets (plural)

Synonyms

binary planet

Questions

What does double planet mean?: A planet with a moon large enough to be considered a planet, were the planet not there, having a substantial portion of the system's overall mass.

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