Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

bear otter

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.35 in modern English

Syllables: bear ot-ter
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An extinct genus of otters, Enhydriodon, that lived in the late Miocene and early Pleistocene.

Example Sentences

"Searching for hard-shelled prey – molluscs, crabs and the like – there are two species of bear otter in Kanapoi."

Inflected Forms

bear otters (plural)

Questions

What does bear otter mean?: An extinct genus of otters, Enhydriodon, that lived in the late Miocene and early Pleistocene.

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