Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

snow fort

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.24 in modern English

Syllables: snow -fort
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A walled structure constructed of snow and used for children's wintertime play.

Canadian usage

Example Sentences

"Knowing the proper art of building a quin-zhee could have saved me and my friends from many snow fort cave-ins when young."
"2008, Laura Dolce, "Seeing snow through a child's life," seacoastonline.com (New Hampshire), 3 Jan., It wasn't a big lawn . . . but to us it was stadium-sized, with plenty of room for snow angels, snowball fights and the all-important snow forts."

Usage

Canadian usage

Inflected Forms

snow forts (plural) snowfort (alternative)

Frequently Paired Words

igloo quinzhee snowcrete

Synonyms

snow castle

Questions

What does snow fort mean?: A walled structure constructed of snow and used for children's wintertime play.

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