supervolcano
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.85 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Mosaic of Olympus Mons on Mars. The supervolcano is nearly 600 kilometers wide at the base and 25 kilometers high and is capped by a crater 65 kilometers in diameter. It is about five times larger than the most massive volcanic cone on earth, Mauna Loa in Hawaii."
- "The stone went dark, and instantly the supervolcano burst with an unthinkable blast. A miles-deep plug of dark and hot earth flew upward, followed by a tremendous expanding cloud. Swirling, dense substance spread and thickened [...]"
- "Sytau is rabidly volcanic; a dozen "supervolcanoes" 50-120 kilometers wide are erupting across the planet. Sytau's carbon content and constant volcanism make natural diamonds plentiful, if extremely costly and dangerous to recover."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Italic *super Latin super Latin super-lbor. English super- Cretan Ancient Greek Ϝέλχανος (Wélkhanos)der.? Latin Vulcānusbor. Italian Vulcano Italian vulcanobor. English volcano English supervolcano From super- + volcano.