Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hälleflinta

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: halle-flinta
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A fine-grained rock consisting of an intimate mixture of quartz and feldspar, sometimes banded or striated, sometimes containing porphyritic crystals of quartz.

Uncountable

Etymology

From Swedish hälleflinta (literally “rock-flint”), from häll + flinta (compare Old Norse flettu (grjót (“flintstone”)), from Middle Low German vlint, from Old Saxon *flint, from Proto-West Germanic *flint).

Origin

Source language: Swedish

Word Breakdown

Root: hälleflinta, vlint, *flint

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does hälleflinta mean?: A fine-grained rock consisting of an intimate mixture of quartz and feldspar, sometimes banded or striated, sometimes containing porphyritic crystals of quartz.
Where does hälleflinta come from?: It is traced to Swedish.

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