Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

woodsmoke

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.47 in modern English

Syllables: woodsmoke
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

1

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Smoke from burning wood.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"I came to the southern end of a line of cliffs loftier than any I had seen before, and as I approached them, there was wafted to my nostrils the pungent aroma of woodsmoke. What could it mean? There could, to my mind, be but a single solution: man abided close by, a higher order of man than we had as yet seen, other than Ahm, the Neanderthal man."

Etymology

From wood + smoke.

Usage

Uncountable

Inflected Forms

woodsmokes (plural)

Phrases

wood-fired wood-smoked

Frequently Paired Words

firesmoke smokewood wood-fired wood-smoked woodstove coal-smoke peat-smoke oilsmoke

Questions

What does woodsmoke mean?: Smoke from burning wood.
Where does woodsmoke come from?: From wood + smoke.

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