Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

grawl

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: grawl
IPA

9

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

1

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A young salmon; grilse

Etymology

Back-formation from grawls, a variant of graulse, mistaken as a plural. Ultimately, graulse is a variant of English grilse.

Inflected Forms

grawls (plural) graul (alternative) grall (alternative) graulse (alternative, Scotland)

Questions

What does grawl mean?: A young salmon; grilse
Where does grawl come from?: Back-formation from grawls, a variant of graulse, mistaken as a plural. Ultimately, graulse is a variant of English grilse.

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