Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

waterbody

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.57 in modern English

Syllables: wa-ter-body
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Alternative form of water body.

Example Sentences

"The area navigable by anything other than a raft gradually shrank, and parts of the inland sea were converted into fish farms. Chiku Lagoon (七股潟湖) is the largest remnant waterbody of the inland sea. Much of the rest has been filled in and built on."

Etymology

From water + body.

Inflected Forms

waterbodies (plural)

Questions

What does waterbody mean?: Alternative form of water body.
Where does waterbody come from?: From water + body.

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