Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

superlightning

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: su-perlight-ning
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

3

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Extremely powerful lightning; a superbolt.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Many of the superlightning phenomena detected by the satellites were produced by winter storms over Japan and the northeast Pacific."
"We've discovered a strange soil chemistry on Mars, well-ordered wind systems on Venus, superlightning bolts, giant auroras, and a thin system of rings at Jupiter, volcanoes in eruption on the Jovian moon lo, and more rings and a whole gaggle of new moons around Saturn."
"Superlightning has been documented and recorded as shooting upward, beyond the cloud layer, thousands of feet."

Etymology

From super- + lightning.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: super

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does superlightning mean?: Extremely powerful lightning; a superbolt.
Where does superlightning come from?: From super- + lightning.

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