regatta
/ɹɪˈɡætə/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.87 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "[…] many people living along the harbour front had boathouses and boats of their own, for regattas and water sports were one of Victoria's chief attractions."
- "The novice eights race demonstrated one of the reasons UVa manages to be so good year after year; the UVa novs finished first and second in the event, while Clemson's novice crew, the surprise of the regatta, took third."
- "As he quietly planned out the unfolding day ahead of him, his attention was drawn to a regatta of swans drawing close to the bank of the river."
- "The mind returns to water meadows on the Risle and the Test, and the Traun with its petulant regatta of swans, where we fished from the timber walkways and stayed in the little fishing hotel at Marien- brucke."
- "A succession of mild winters which encouraged the recovery of kingfishers enabled some waters to restock again with a regatta of swans where there is willow-moss and other vegetation to feed them."