Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

isolani

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: isolani
IPA

7

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

1

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A queen's pawn with no pawns of the same colour on the adjacent files.

Etymology

Coined by Aron Nimzowitsch, from Italian isolano (“islander”).

Origin

Source language: Italian

Word Breakdown

Root: isolano

Inflected Forms

isolanis (plural)

Questions

What does isolani mean?: A queen's pawn with no pawns of the same colour on the adjacent files.
Where does isolani come from?: It is traced to Italian.

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