turtling
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.37 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Drowsy with dawn, barely asail, Buzzes the blue-bottle over the shale, Scared from the pool by the leaping trout; And the brood of turtlings clamber out On the log by their oozy house."
- "The turtle-lings, kept in safety until they are three months old, are then released into the wild."
- "Fifty days later, more or less, the little turtlings hatch, dig their way up through the sand, and make a mad scramble to the sea."