protocontinent
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
5
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "There were still plenty of islands about, including proto-Britain in the west and Iberia in the south, but stretching from the Turgai Strait in the east to Scandinavia in the north, a European proto-continent was beginning to take shape, one that no amount of rising seas or shifting tectonic plates has divided since."
Etymology
From proto- + continent.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: proto
Inflected Forms
protocontinents (plural)
proto-continent (alternative)