Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

snow flake

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.20 in modern English

Syllables: snow flake
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

1

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Alternative form of snowflake.

Example Sentences

"Tomorrow we’ll restore. Get the past up and out, forgiveness (that is, regeneration) will result, and confusion will melt as a crystalled snow flake in the ’morrow’s sun."
"The Steelers (6-7) withstood temperatures in the teens, a wind chill that was below zero in the second half and an occasional snow flake to win their seventh in a row against their Rust Belt rival, following up a 41-0 rout in Cleveland last December and a 24-20 comeback victory last month in Cleveland."
"Punters had bet £600,000 – making it the biggest white Christmas bet recorded in this country – but the Met Office, which uses the fall of single snow flake as a definition, only recorded a white Christmas in Aberdeen, Glasgow, Albemarle in the north-east, Church Fenton in Leeds and Waddington in Lincolnshire."

Inflected Forms

snow flakes (plural)

Questions

What does snow flake mean?: Alternative form of snowflake.

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