schoene
/ʃˈɑin/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.18 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative form of schene.
Example Sentences
- "The schoene appears to be about 4 Roman miles; but has certainly no connection with that mile, being a Persian measure."
- "This distance of 1000 orgyas was taken as an itinerary unit, and called a schoene."
- "The length of the country along shore, according to the bounds that we assign to Egypt, namely from the Plinthinetic gulf to Lake Serbonis, which extends along the base of Mount Casius, is sixty schoenes."