Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

guyot

/ɡiˈoʊ/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.05 in modern English

Syllables: guy-ot
IPA: /ɡiˈoʊ/

9

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A flat-topped seamount.

name

A surname from French.

Example Sentences

"It was scored everywhere with canyons, trenches and crevasses and dotted with volcanic seamounts that he called guyots after an earlier Princeton geologist named Arnold Guyot."

Etymology

Coined by Harry Hammond Hess circa 1965 due to their similar appearance to Guyot Hall, the flat-topped geology building at Princeton University, which was in turn named after Swiss-American geologist Arnold Henry Guyot.

Origin

Source language: French

Word Breakdown

Root: Guyot

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ɡiˈoʊ/
British English: /ˈɡiː.əʊ/

Inflected Forms

guyots (plural)

Rhymes With

quiet diet riot wyatt hyatt disquiet hiatt piatt pyatt myatt hiott pyeatt

Questions

How do you pronounce guyot?: The recorded pronunciation is /ɡiˈoʊ/.
What does guyot mean?: A flat-topped seamount.
Where does guyot come from?: It is traced to French.

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