Definitions for archipelago

archipelago ar·chi·pel·a·go

Spelling: [ahr-kuh-pel-uh-goh]
IPA: /ˌɑr kəˈpɛl əˌgoʊ/

Archipelago is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 19 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 22 points.

You can make 996 anagrams from letters in archipelago (aaceghilopr).

Definitions for archipelago

noun

  1. a large group or chain of islands:
  2. any large body of water with many islands.
  3. the Archipelago, the Aegean Sea.

Origin of archipelago

1495-1505; alteration (archi- for arci-) of Italian arcipelago, alteration of Egeopelago the Aegean Sea Greek Aigaîon pélagos

Examples for archipelago

In that story I had not gone back to the archipelago, I had only turned for another look at it.

It looks out onto a harbor beyond which is this archipelago, in the Breiðafjörður, the great bay beyond.

There were three Dutch voyages to the Arctic archipelago in the 16th century.

The flight path remained close to the Indonesian archipelago, well within what is the normal reach of air traffic control radar.

It lies near the sea, as it were at the head of the archipelago.

They should have left the island to leeward, heading into the Caribbean and away from the archipelago.

Power has withered at the center and devolved to an archipelago of fiefdoms where warlords rule without the burdens of governing.

The vroucolacas of Greece and the archipelago are again revenans of a new kind.

The largest of an archipelago of islands, Santorini is the vestige of a single volcanic landmass that erupted around 1600 BC.

Morrison knew no more of Heyst than the rest of us trading in the archipelago did.

Word Value for archipelago
Scrable

19

Words with friends

22

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