Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

crevasse

/kɹəˈvæs/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 2.37 in modern English

Syllables: crevasse
IPA: /kɹəˈvæs/

13

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A crack or fissure in a glacier or snowfield; a chasm.

noun

A breach in a canal or river bank.

American usage

noun

Any cleft or fissure.

noun

A discontinuity or “gap” between the accounted variables and an observed outcome.

verb

To form crevasses.

Intransitive verb

verb

To fissure with crevasses.

Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"I moved my left hand to the small of her back, just above her belt-line and stroked the peach fuzz in her crevasse with my fingers."
"[…] he laments that he can find no physiological phenomenon answering to his subject’s winning a race, or losing it. Between his terminal output of energy and his victory or defeat there is a mysterious crevasse. Physiology is baffled."

Etymology

From French crevasse. Doublet of crevice.

Origin

Source language: French

Word Breakdown

Root: crevasse

Usage

Inflected Forms

crevasses (plural) crevasses (present, singular) crevassing (participle, present) crevassed (participle, past) crevassed (past)

Rhymes With

class first-class pass gas ass middle-class mass glass grass bass brass das

Questions

How do you pronounce crevasse?: The recorded pronunciation is /kɹəˈvæs/.
What does crevasse mean?: A crack or fissure in a glacier or snowfield; a chasm.
Where does crevasse come from?: It is traced to French.

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