Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

stillbay

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: still-bay
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A Middle Stone Age stone tool manufacturing style, first described from the site of Stilbaai (Still Bay) in South Africa.

Etymology

Named by archaeologists A. J. H. Goodwin and C. van Riet Lowe in 1929.

Inflected Forms

Still Bay (alternative)

Questions

What does stillbay mean?: A Middle Stone Age stone tool manufacturing style, first described from the site of Stilbaai (Still Bay) in South Africa.
Where does stillbay come from?: Named by archaeologists A. J. H. Goodwin and C. van Riet Lowe in 1929.

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