Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

by-the-books

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.14 in modern English

Syllables: by-the--books
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Alternative form of by-the-book.

Example Sentences

"The hostility Garrus nurtures for the ineffective Citadel Security Services (C-Sec) bureaucracy has an oedipal tinge since his father, Castis Vakarian, is an exemplary by-the-books C-Sec officer."

Inflected Forms

more by-the-books (comparative) most by-the-books (superlative)

Questions

What does by-the-books mean?: Alternative form of by-the-book.

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