Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

ice giant

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.47 in modern English

Syllables: ice -giant
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

noun

A giant planet composed mostly of astronomical ices (condensed forms of volatile compounds) including water, methane, oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur, and smaller than a gas giant. (e.g. Neptune and Uranus)

Example Sentences

"The drops became living by the power of him who had sent the wind ; and from them sprang Ymir, the ice-giant."
"The three sons of Borr, Othin, Wili, and We, grandsons of Buri, the first man, slay Ymir, the father of the Hrimthursar or Ice giants, and his body serves them for the construction of the world."
"The fifth planet was an unknown, an ice giant in a drunken skewed orbit that took it from just inside the Jovian's orbit almost out to the sixth planet's."

Inflected Forms

ice giants (plural)

Phrases

gas giant minor planet dwarf planet

Frequently Paired Words

gas giant minor planet dwarf planet carbide planet carbon planet silicate planet silicon planet terrestrial planet

Synonyms

ice giant planet Neptunian planet

Questions

What does ice giant mean?: A frost giant.

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