Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

breaking the news

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.66 in modern English

Syllables
break-ing the news
IPA
28
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
2
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

present participle and gerund of break the news

Questions

What does breaking the news mean?
present participle and gerund of break the news

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