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sea snail

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.65 in modern English

Syllables
sea s-nail
IPA
8
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any saltwater snail; a marine gastropod mollusk with a shell (contrasted with sea slug).

Etymology

From Middle English *se-snail, from Old English sǣsnæġl (“seasnail”), equivalent to sea + snail. Cognate with Danish søsnegl (“seasnail”), Norwegian sjøsnegl (“seasnail”), Icelandic sjósnigill (“seasnail”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: *se-snail, sǣsnæġl

Inflected Forms

sea snails (plural) sea-snail (alternative) seasnail (alternative)

Synonyms

snailfish seasnail liparis liparis

Questions

What does sea snail mean?
Any saltwater snail; a marine gastropod mollusk with a shell (contrasted with sea slug).
Where does sea snail come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

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