Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

camelopardalis

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.20 in modern English

Syllables: camelopardalis
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

1

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A faint circumpolar constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a giraffe.

Etymology

First recorded by the astronomer Jakob Bartsch in 1624, but probably created earlier by Petrus Plancius. From Latin camēlopardalis (“a camelopard, giraffe”).

Questions

What does camelopardalis mean?: A faint circumpolar constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a giraffe.
Where does camelopardalis come from?: First recorded by the astronomer Jakob Bartsch in 1624, but probably created earlier by Petrus Plancius. From Latin camēlopardalis (“a camelopard, giraffe”).

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