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neowise

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.46 in modern English

Syllables
ne-o-wise
IPA
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A comet in Solar System. Visible to the naked eye in 2020. The first comet easily visible to the naked eye in the Northern Hemisphere in a quarter century.

name

Alternative letter-case form of NEOWISE.

Etymology

From being discovered in 2020 by the NEOWISE mission, a mission started in 2010 aboard the WISE space telescope (Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer). From NEO (“near-Earth object”)+WISE.

Frequently Paired Words

McNaught Hale-Bopp Hyakutake West Kohoutek Halley

Synonyms

Comet NEOWISE

Questions

What does neowise mean?
A comet in Solar System. Visible to the naked eye in 2020. The first comet easily visible to the naked eye in the Northern Hemisphere in a quarter century.
Where does neowise come from?
From being discovered in 2020 by the NEOWISE mission, a mission started in 2010 aboard the WISE space telescope (Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer). From NEO (“near-Earth object”)+WISE.

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