Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

gulph

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.23 in modern English

Syllables: gulph
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

1

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Obsolete spelling of gulf.

Obsolete

verb

Alternative form of gulf.

Example Sentences

"Or that the sword of some brave enemy Had put a sudden stop to my hot breath, And hurl’d me down the illimitable gulph Of times past, unremember’d!"
"1889, Fell on the pirates by the deep, / And hurled them in the gulph of sleep. — William Butler Yeats, ‘The Madness of King Goll’"
"Fill to[…]the full glass—the Cape Horn measure, which you may gulph down for a shilling."

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

gulphs (plural) gulphs (present, singular) gulphing (participle, present) gulphed (participle, past) gulphed (past)

Questions

What does gulph mean?: Obsolete spelling of gulf.

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