Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

jwst

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.82 in modern English

Syllables: jw-st
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

4

Letters

2

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

Initialism of James Webb Space Telescope.

American usage

Example Sentences

"Unlike the Hubble telescope, which orbits a few hundred miles above the Earth’s surface and is relatively accessible for servicing missions, the JWST will be located at what is called the L2 point, a location about a million miles farther away from the sun than the Earth."
"The team had been trying to find clues for a different mystery: why JWST keeps finding bright galaxies in the universe's infancy, when it was thought to have been too early for them to have become so huge."

Usage

American usage

Questions

What does jwst mean?: Initialism of James Webb Space Telescope.

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