Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

moving sofa problem

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.77 in modern English

Syllables
mov-ing -so-fa prob-lem
IPA
32
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
5
Syllables
14
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A two-dimensional idealization of furniture-moving problems, asking for the rigid two-dimensional shape of largest area that can be maneuvered through an L-shaped planar region with legs of unit width.

Inflected Forms

the moving sofa problem (canonical)

Phrases

sofa constant

Frequently Paired Words

sofa constant

Synonyms

sofa problem

Questions

What does moving sofa problem mean?
A two-dimensional idealization of furniture-moving problems, asking for the rigid two-dimensional shape of largest area that can be maneuvered through an L-shaped planar region with legs of unit width.

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