seafarer
/ˈsiˌfeɹɚ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.07 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "An intergovernmental panel will draw up plans to relieve seafarers who have been stuck at sea during a crisis."
- "Clearly the earliest Australians were seafarers who landed there tens of thousands of years ago; our quest to know more about them — did they come from Melanesia? what kind of boats did they have? were they blown out to sea by a storm? — is ongoing."
Etymology
From Middle English *se-farere (suggested by se-farende, sa farinde (“sea-faring”)) equivalent to sea + farer (“traveler”) and to seafare + -er. Cognate with Middle Dutch seevarer, whence Modern Dutch zeevaarder (“seafarer”), West Frisian seefarder (“seafarer”), German Seefahrer (“seafarer”), Swedish sjöfarare (“seafarer”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈsiˌfeɹɚ/