iwo jima
/ˌi.woʊ ˈdʒi.mə/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 2.37 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A volcanic island in the Volcano Islands in the North Pacific, now administered as part of Tokyo's Ogasawara Subprefecture and most famous for a major battle in World War II.
name
A volcanic island in the Satsunan Islands in the Philippine Sea, administered as part of Kagoshima.
Example Sentences
- "Not many weeks before, during the battle for Iwo Jima, Joe Rosenthal, an Associated Press photographer, had taken his inspired photograph of the American flag being raised on Mount Suribachi."
- "At Iwo Jima, code talkers passed over 800 error-free messages in a 48-hour period, according to the Congressional law honoring the program."
Etymology
From the early modern Japanese misreading Iwōjima for 硫黄島 (Iwōtō, “Sulfur Island”), a calque of English Sulphur Island in accounts of James Cook's voyages, possibly originally from Early Modern Spanish Isla Sufre although the island was left unnamed by its first known discoverer Bernardo de la Torre.
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Inflected Forms
Iwojima (alternative)
Iwo-Jima (alternative)
Io Jima (alternative)
Iō Jima (alternative)
Io-jima (alternative)
Iō-jima (alternative)
Iojima (alternative)
Iōjima (alternative)