Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

carrying coals to newcastle

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.94 in modern English

Syllables
car-ry-ing -coal-s -to new-cas-tle
IPA
37
Scrabble Score
24
Letters
8
Syllables
13
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

present participle and gerund of carry coals to Newcastle

Questions

What does carrying coals to newcastle mean?
present participle and gerund of carry coals to Newcastle

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