Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

randkluft

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: rand-kluft
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The headwall gap between a glacier or snowfield and the adjacent rock face at the back of the cirque or, more loosely, between the rock face and the side of the glacier.

Etymology

Borrowed from German Randkluft, from Rand (“edge, brink, rim”) + Kluft (“cleft, fissure, joint”).

Origin

Source language: German

Word Breakdown

Root: Randkluft

Inflected Forms

randklufts (plural)

Questions

What does randkluft mean?: The headwall gap between a glacier or snowfield and the adjacent rock face at the back of the cirque or, more loosely, between the rock face and the side of the glacier.
Where does randkluft come from?: It is traced to German.

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