Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

chicken or egg question

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.20 in modern English

Syllables: chick-en or eg-g ques-tion
IPA

42

Scrabble Score

20

Letters

4

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Alternative spelling of chicken-or-egg question.

Example Sentences

"The apparent one-to-one correspondence between comets and meteor showers raised a chicken or egg question which was not fully resolved until the middle of the twentieth century."

Inflected Forms

chicken or egg questions (plural)

Questions

What does chicken or egg question mean?: Alternative spelling of chicken-or-egg question.

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