nevada triangle
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.68 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A region bounded by the vertices at Reno, Nevada, US; Las Vegas, Nevada, US; Fresno, California, US; containing part of the Sierra Nevada (a mountain range in the Rocky Mountain Cordillera); the triangle falling mostly in the U.S. state of Nevada; where many plane crashes occur and planes disappear.
Etymology
From Nevada + triangle. From being a triangular area mostly in Nevada. Coined in analogy to the Bermuda Triangle.
Inflected Forms
the Nevada Triangle (canonical)