rockslide
noun
rockslide is a noun meaning “A type of landslide characterized by falling rocks” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-O-C-K-S-L-I-D-E, and it appears about once in every 18 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of rockslide is rockslides.
What does rockslide mean?
noun
- 1
A type of landslide characterized by falling rocks.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of rockslide
- rockslides plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is rockslide?
Rockslide appears about once in every 18 million words in written English, the 128,787th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Rockslide in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense type of landslide characterized by falling rocks:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Bergsturz |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does rockslide come from?
From rock + slide.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).