styx
/stɪks/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.60 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
The 5th moon of Pluto, discovered in 2012.
name
A locality in the Derwent Valley council area, south eastern Tasmania, Australia.
Example Sentences
- "A bold bad man, that dar'd to call by name / Great Gorgon, prince of darknes and dead night, / At which Cocytus quakes and Styx is put to flight."
- "For two-and-twenty years he [Doctor Guillotin], unguillotined, shall hear nothing but guillotine, see nothing but guillotine; then dying, shall through long centuries wander, as it were, a disconsolate ghost, on the wrong side of Styx and Lethe; his name like to outlive Cæsar’s."
- "The Styx was the best-known river in Hades. […] Hades’ house stood on the shore of the Styx."
- "Bornless one / As darkness bright / Found not in tongues / Found not in light / Bring down the rain / Drain waters of Styx / Faustian luminary / Redeem blaspheme / Like a day without the dawn / Like a ray void of the sun / Like a storm that brings no calm / I'm most complete yet so undone"
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Στύξ (Stúx).