northwest passage
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.90 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
The sea route through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, connecting the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans, between the Baffin Bay and the Beaufort Sea.
Example Sentences
- "Ah, for just one time / I would take the Northwest Passage / To find the hand of Franklin / Reaching for the Beaufort Sea"
- "The dream of a Northwest Passage lured European explorers for centuries with the promise of a quick, if hazardous, Arctic sea route across the New World to the wealth of Asia."
Inflected Forms
the Northwest Passage (canonical)