Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

matterhorn

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.45 in modern English

Syllables: mat-ter-horn
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

An iconic pyramidal mountain on the border of Switzerland and Italy.

name

Something difficult to achieve or to surmount.

Example Sentences

"A second feature is the Matterhorn of inflation that dominates the scene. The average postwar recession showed a 1.4 per cent decline in industrial wholesale prices."
"Meanwhile, soaring oil prices and plummeting real energy yields from liquid fuels have already left economic carnage in their wake, as a fragile global financial system perched on a Matterhorn of debt has been dealt blow after blow by the failure of the real economy to expand as expected."

Etymology

Borrowed from German Matterhorn.

Questions

What does matterhorn mean?: An iconic pyramidal mountain on the border of Switzerland and Italy.
Where does matterhorn come from?: Borrowed from German Matterhorn.

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