Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

pearl of the antilles

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.73 in modern English

Syllables: pearl of the an-tilles
IPA

26

Scrabble Score

18

Letters

2

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Saint-Domingue (present-day Haiti)

noun

Etymology

Calque of French perle des Antilles, from being the richest and most prosperous French colony in the West Indies.

Inflected Forms

the pearl of the Antilles (canonical) pearls of the Antilles (plural)

Questions

What does pearl of the antilles mean?: Saint-Domingue (present-day Haiti)
Where does pearl of the antilles come from?: Calque of French perle des Antilles, from being the richest and most prosperous French colony in the West Indies.

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