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cassiar

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.46 in modern English

Syllables
cas-siar
IPA
9
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

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A ghost town in the Cassiar Mountains, Cassiar Land District, Northern Interior, Interior, Mainland, British Columbia, Canada.

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A former provincial electoral district in British Columbia, Canada.

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A historical region in northwest British Columbia, Canada, site of an 1870's gold rush; in full, Cassiar Country.

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Ellipsis of the Cassiar Mountains: a mountain group in the Cassiar Land District, in northwest British Columbia, Canada, named after the district.

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Ellipsis of the Cassiar Land District: a cadastral division in northwest British Columbia, Canada, named after the historic Cassiar Country region.

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A river in the Cassiar Land District, in northwest British Columbia, Canada; in full, Cassiar River.

Etymology

Corruption of Kaska. From Kaska. From the Kaska Dena, an Athabaskan-speaking First Nations group of the Dene, who live in the region of Northern British Columbia and Southern Yukon Territory.

Word Breakdown

Derived Forms

Cassiars

Phrases

Cassiar Connector Cassiar Country Cassiar County Cassiar District Cassiar Gold Rush Cassiar Highway Cassiar Land District Cassiar Mountains

Synonyms

Cassiars Cassiar Ranges Cassiar County Cassiar District Cassiar Country

Questions

What does cassiar mean?
A ghost town in the Cassiar Mountains, Cassiar Land District, Northern Interior, Interior, Mainland, British Columbia, Canada.
Where does cassiar come from?
Corruption of Kaska. From Kaska. From the Kaska Dena, an Athabaskan-speaking First Nations group of the Dene, who live in the region of Northern British Columbia and Southern Yukon Territory.

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