Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

fluvisol

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: flu-vi-sol
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A genetically young kind of soil found in alluvial deposits.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fluvius (“river”) + -sol.

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: fluvius
Suffix: sol

Inflected Forms

fluvisols (plural)

Questions

What does fluvisol mean?: A genetically young kind of soil found in alluvial deposits.
Where does fluvisol come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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