flooding
/ˈflʌdɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.97 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The storms resulted in flooding over a large area."
- "And by the same token it was plain that there had also been a hundred and seventy-five floodings of the earth and depositings of limestone strata!"
- "[...] at Cowley Bridge Junction, east of Exeter, both lines were impassable from about 1.30 p.m.—the first flooding of the junction for 36 years—and by the evening the water had risen two-thirds of the way up the platforms at St. Davids as Exeter faced its worst flooding for 60 years."