bering straits
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.77 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Example Sentences
- "Lake Le Barge was named after Mike Le Barge, an employé of the Western Union Telegraph Company, who was employed in constructing the overland telegraph line from America to Europe (via Bering Straits) in 1867. The completion of the Atlantic Cable in 1866 put an-end to this project."
- "During the frostiest days of the Cold War, avoiding the Soviet Bloc meant flying north around Greenland to Alaska, refueling in Anchorage, and then around the Bering Straits to reach Japan."
Inflected Forms
the Bering Straits (canonical)