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tsar bomba

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.28 in modern English

Syllables
tsar bom-ba
IPA
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A 50-megaton thermonuclear bomb, detonated by the Soviet Union in October 1961. It was the biggest nuclear bomb ever exploded.

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian Царь-бо́мба (Carʹ-bómba, “emperor of bombs”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: Царь-бо́мба

Inflected Forms

the Tsar Bomba (canonical)

Questions

What does tsar bomba mean?
A 50-megaton thermonuclear bomb, detonated by the Soviet Union in October 1961. It was the biggest nuclear bomb ever exploded.
Where does tsar bomba come from?
It is traced to Russian.

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