zanzibar
/ˈzænzɪbɑː(ɹ)/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.91 in modern English
28
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
An island region of Tanzania in the Indian Ocean.
name
A former sultanate in East Africa in the Indian Ocean, which merged with Tanganyika in 1963 to form Tanzania.
Example Sentences
- "Other examples of nonhuman self-domestication in the wild exist—for instance, the Zanzibar red colobus monkey diverged from the mainland African red colobus in similar ways during its island isolation—but bonobos are the closest and most relevant to us."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: زنگبار