Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cloudling

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: cloudling
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

1

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A small or miniature cloud; an immature or formative stage in the development of a cloud.

Example Sentences

"And yet at first it seemed hard to believe that so innocent a cloudling could be the progenitor of mist dense enough to blot out even a section of the enormous landscape."
"“I'll give you an example: a cloudling may coalesce one morning and rise to the sky, ready to meander across the horizon for a few hours before joining a bank of other cloudlings."

Etymology

From cloud + -ling.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: cloud

Inflected Forms

cloudlings (plural)

Synonyms

cloudlet

Questions

What does cloudling mean?: A small or miniature cloud; an immature or formative stage in the development of a cloud.
Where does cloudling come from?: From cloud + -ling.

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