Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

phœnicopter

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: phœni-copter
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

2

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Obsolete form of phenicopter.

Obsolete

Example Sentences

"The Indian law‐giver, Manu recommends that a Bráhman should choose for his wife a young maiden, whose gait was like that of a phœnicopter, or flamingo, or even like that of a young elephant."

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

phœnicopters (plural)

Questions

What does phœnicopter mean?: Obsolete form of phenicopter.

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