Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

common seal

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.25 in modern English

Syllables
com-mon seal
IPA
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Phoca vitulina, a seal living in the northern Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

Inflected Forms

common seals (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

Baikal seal bearded seal grey seal harp seal hooded seal ribbon seal ringed seal spotted seal

Synonyms

harbor seal harbour seal selkie sea calf phoca vitulina

Questions

What does common seal mean?
Phoca vitulina, a seal living in the northern Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

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