Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

harr

/hˈæɹ/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.13 in modern English

Syllables: harr
IPA: /hˈæɹ/

7

Scrabble Score

4

Letters

1

Syllables

3

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Alternative form of haar (“sea fog; wind which blows in this fog”).

noun

The stile that bears the hinges of a gate.

name

Example Sentences

"For lo! now peeping just above the vast / Vault of the German Sea, in east afar, / Appears full many a brig's and schooner's mast, / Their topsails strutting with the vernal harr"
"Fogs and harrs are unfrequent, as are constant rain; mornings of drenching flood being often succeeded by bright and beautiful days."
"The harr clung in a close, white drapery to trees; it swallowed up houses ; it obliterated hills."
"The eye rubs faintly in the fell fog, is misled by hill mist the high front coming with the Atlantic storm or the harr on the North Sea roke when there's even no moon and no star tempting to say we see him as often as ..... aurora ..."
"One of the first places for a gate to go rotten is at the junction of the brace and harr."

Etymology

See haar.

Origin

Source language: German

Word Breakdown

Root: -

Inflected Forms

harrs (plural)

Homonyms

harre

Rhymes With

garr stahr sparr sahr zarr harre klahr knarr smarr snarr schnarr labarr

Questions

How do you pronounce harr?: The recorded pronunciation is /hˈæɹ/.
What does harr mean?: Alternative form of haar (“sea fog; wind which blows in this fog”).
Where does harr come from?: It is traced to German.

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