Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

strelets

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: strelets
IPA

8

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

1

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A unit of Russian guardsmen from the 16th to the early 18th centuries, armed with a firearm.

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian стреле́ц (streléc).

Origin

Source language: Russian

Word Breakdown

Root: стреле́ц

Inflected Forms

streltsy (plural)

Questions

What does strelets mean?: A unit of Russian guardsmen from the 16th to the early 18th centuries, armed with a firearm.
Where does strelets come from?: It is traced to Russian.

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