Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

the great calamity

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.22 in modern English

Syllables: the -great -calami-ty
IPA

27

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

4

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

n

a famine in Ireland resulting from a potato blight; between 1846 and 1851 a million people starved to death and 1.6 million emigrated (most to America)

Synonyms

the Irish Famine the Great Hunger the Great Starvation

Questions

What does the great calamity mean?: a famine in Ireland resulting from a potato blight; between 1846 and 1851 a million people starved to death and 1.6 million emigrated (most to America)

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