gulf of méxico
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.80 in modern English
29
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Example Sentences
- "The country called México, or New Spain, by the historians of the last century was situated between 9° and 40° north latitude, and 80° and 50° west longitude. […] The boundary with the United States, as fixed by the treaties of February 2, 1848, and December 30, 1853, begins at the mouth of the Rio Grande on the Gulf of México and follows the river for 1,136 miles beyond El Paso, Tex., to the point where it meets parallel 31° 47′ latitude north, thence along said parallel for a distance of 100 miles; […]"
- "Such a difference in the planktonic-foraminiferal assemblage at 40° north latitude between eastern and western North America is probably due to: […] (2) the separation of the Western Interior–Gulf of México water mass from that of the west coast by the Nevadian land mass; […]"
- "México is located between the latitudes 15° and 30° N and the longitudes 86° and 116°. Two thirds of the country is located in the tropics, including 90% of the coastal regions on the Gulf of México."
- "Since Humboldt’s time, it has been recognized that in central México a volcanic belt, including many active volcanoes, crosses México from Tepic on the Pacific Coast to Veracruz on the Gulf of México."
Inflected Forms
the Gulf of México (canonical)