hiatuses
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.65 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "That many pretended cognoscenti in music are totally ignorant of such natural principles, I am convinced; for I have heard a lady play gracefully a lesson of Clementi's, who knew nothing about it, but how a man, of an investigating mind, can see the black keys of a harpsichord, and observe the two hiatuses in the rows of every octave, and not ask himself why, is to me unaccountable."
- "Hiatuses or gaps in the Elohim document form an argument against its existence, in the hands of critics like Keil; but the instances of them are fewer than he supposes."
- "Thus all stratigraphic sections have undetected hiatuses at some scale."