kopje
/kəʊpi/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.52 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "In one spot only was the solemn monotony of the plain broken. Near the center a small solitary “kopje” rose. Alone it lay there, a heap of round ironstones piled one upon the other, as over some giant’s grave."
- "We selected a lichenous kopje perhaps fifteen yards away, and landed neatly on its summit one after the other."
- "It was nearly noon when he reached the great bowlder at the top of which terminated the secret passage to the pits beneath the city. Like a cat he scaled the precipitous sides of the frowning granite kopje."
- "Martha looked over a mile or so of bush to a strip of pink ploughed land; […] and then, ridge after ridge, fold after fold, the bush stretched to a line of blue kopjes."
- "On the koppie behind the village, the unsightly red-and-white skeleton of an FM tower."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: kopje