mcnaught
/məkˈnɔːt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.01 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
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A comet in Solar System. A rare comet which was visible to the naked eye, in the southern hemisphere in 2007. The first great comet of the 21st century, and brightest comet in about half-a-century.
Countable; Uncountable
Etymology
From Scottish Gaelic Mac Neachdan. The comet was named after its discoverer, astronomer Robert H. McNaught, who discovered it in 2006.
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Inflected Forms
McNaughts (plural)