Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

short-faced bear

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.25 in modern English

Syllables: short---faced bear
IPA

25

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

4

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A member of a subfamily of Ursidae that contains one living representative, the spectacled bear.

Example Sentences

"The biggest of the Alaskan short-faced bears weighed over a ton, three times the weight of the biggest modern-day predator on land, the Siberian tiger, and four times that of an adult male grizzly bear."

Inflected Forms

short-faced bears (plural)

Questions

What does short-faced bear mean?: A member of a subfamily of Ursidae that contains one living representative, the spectacled bear.

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