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wilderness road

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.93 in modern English

Syllables
wilder-ness road
IPA
19
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

One of two principal routes used by colonial and early national era settlers to reach Kentucky from the East — the other being the Cumberland Road. It made a long loop from Virginia southward to Tennessee and then northward to Kentucky, a distance of 200 miles (320 km).

Inflected Forms

the Wilderness Road (canonical)

Questions

What does wilderness road mean?
One of two principal routes used by colonial and early national era settlers to reach Kentucky from the East — the other being the Cumberland Road. It made a long loop from Virginia southward to Tennessee and then northward to Kentucky, a distance of 200 miles (320 km).

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