Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

canal basin

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.84 in modern English

Syllables: canal basin
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

1

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A broad pool of water on a canal system where barges / canal boats can moor and load or unload cargo.

Example Sentences

"Incidentally, the yard in front of the Granary, now a lovely piazza, was once a canal basin that had been filled in decades before."

Inflected Forms

canal basins (plural)

Questions

What does canal basin mean?: A broad pool of water on a canal system where barges / canal boats can moor and load or unload cargo.

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