astronautte
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "In 1960 Jerrie Cobb was the first woman chosen (from a dozen tested) to qualify for NASA's new astronaut program. Newspapers called her an "astronautte," and "America's answer to the Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova.""
- "Administrators also argued that hundreds of women would have to be more rigorously tested to determine if women were capable of sustaining sustaining spaceflight. In response, the press rallied in support of the FLATS, dubbing them astronauttes, astronettes, and astronautrixes."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Suffix: -ette