Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

sellafield

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.04 in modern English

Syllables: sel-l-afield
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A former village in Beckermet parish, Cumberland council area, Cumbria, England, previously in Copeland borough, now the site of a nuclear reprocessing plant, formerly known as Windscale (OS grid ref NY0203).

Example Sentences

"One can't escape the huge nuclear facility at Sellafield (supplier of much of the line's remaining freight traffic), or miss the wild shingle beaches with exposed and precarious bungalows sandwiched between the railway and the shore at Braystones."

Questions

What does sellafield mean?: A former village in Beckermet parish, Cumberland council area, Cumbria, England, previously in Copeland borough, now the site of a nuclear reprocessing plant, formerly known as Windscale (OS grid ref NY0203).

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