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louisiade

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
louisi-ade
IPA
10
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

An archipelago, southeast of New Guinea, consisting of a string of ten larger volcanic islands and 90 smaller coral islands.

Etymology

Named in 1768 by Louis Antoine de Bougainville after Louis XV, the king of France (though they had been discovered long before).

Inflected Forms

the Louisiade (canonical)

Questions

What does louisiade mean?
An archipelago, southeast of New Guinea, consisting of a string of ten larger volcanic islands and 90 smaller coral islands.
Where does louisiade come from?
Named in 1768 by Louis Antoine de Bougainville after Louis XV, the king of France (though they had been discovered long before).

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