shipwreck
/ˈʃɪpɹɛk/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.11 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "heaven will drive shipwrecks ashore to make us all rich"
- "Blackfishing from the beach. I've done my research. Hundreds of shipwrecks line the Jersey coast, and many of them are close enough to reach with a long cast on a dead-low tide. These wrecks hold tautog, porgies, sea bass, flounder."
- "The shipwreck is the earliest examples yet found of a propeller-driven steamship on the Great Lakes."
- "Marine archaeologists have discovered that two shipwrecks in Costa Rica are the remains of Danish slave ships missing for centuries — a finding that restores the ancestral lineage of an entire Costa Rican community more than 300 years after the vessels’ occupants reached its shores."
- "they made the coast of Cochin China, and the tempests, which rose at the same time, threatened them more than once with shipwreck"
- "But now, ten years later, after his recent shipwreck, he cannot compete as a runner, though he can outthrow the slighter Phaeacians with the heaviest discus."
Etymology
From Middle English schipwrak, from Old English sċipwræc (“jetsam”), equivalent to ship + wrack. Cognate with Scots schip-wrak (“to shipwreck”, verb), Dutch scheepswrak (“shipwreck”), German Schiffswrack (“shipwreck”), Swedish skeppsvrak (“shipwreck”), Danish skibsvrag (“shipwreck”). Modern form is due to influence from wreck.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: schipwrak, sċipwræc