spouting
/spˈaʊtɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.89 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Spoutings of lava shot from the crest of the volcano."
- "The spoutings of a large whale can be seen from a great distance."
- "After these spoutings, the great Geyser remained quiet the whole night ; the water in the meanwhile rose gradually, and the bason was filled about four in the morning."
- "The average interval between its spoutings is 78 minutes."
- "Saint-Loup, for another thing, is by way of being a family black sheep: seemingly uninterested in social success, a devoted student of Nietzsche and Proudhon, we are told that his head was full of “socialistic spoutings,” and that he was “imbued with the most prgound contempt for his caste.”"
- "The spouting was filled with leaves and needed cleaning."