Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

kappa variant

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.29 in modern English

Syllables
kap-pa -vari-ant
IPA
23
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The B.1.617.1 strain of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19.

Inflected Forms

κ variant (alternative) κ-variant (alternative)

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What does kappa variant mean?
The B.1.617.1 strain of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19.

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