rogue wave
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.82 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An unexpected, dangerously large wave.
Example Sentences
- "Then one giant crest spills green water over the bow and stops our 100-ton vehicle as though it had ploughed into a gargantuan hay bale. . . . The rogue wave our experimental 78-foot craft hit must have been well over 10 feet high."
- "One of her owners, Mark Litchfield, was quoted by United Press International as saying a “rogue wave” might have knocked the ship over."
- "Scientists still don't know exactly how rogue waves occur, nor do they know how to predict them."