thwaites glacier
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.41 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
2
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A retreating glacier in Antarctica.
Example Sentences
- "Scientists have known for years that the Thwaites glacier is the soft underbelly of the Antarctic ice sheet, and first found that it was unstable decades ago."
- "In 2014 scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory tracked the movements of the glaciers using satellite measurements and computer models. They determined that the largest mass of ice, Thwaites Glacier, might disappear completely in two hundred years."