seacliff
noun
seacliff is a noun meaning “A cliff that abuts the sea, formed by sea erosion” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-E-A-C-L-I-F-F, and it appears about once in every 25 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of seacliff is seacliffs.
What does seacliff mean?
noun
- 1
A cliff that abuts the sea, formed by sea erosion.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of seacliff
- seacliffs plural
- sea-cliff
- sea cliff
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is seacliff?
Seacliff appears about once in every 25 million words in written English, the 150,355th 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).
Where does seacliff come from?
From Middle English sæclif (also in plural see clyues), from Old English sǣclif (“cliff by the sea, seacliff”), equivalent to sea + cliff.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).