Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

clothing-iron

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.28 in modern English

Syllables: cloth-ing--iron
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Rare form of clothing iron.

Example Sentences

"And he explores the ever-widening array of enlistees in the eBay revolution, from a stay-at-home mom who had to rent a warehouse for her thriving business selling bubble-wrap on eBay to the young MBA who started eBay Motors (which within months of its launch was on track to sell $1 billion in cars a year), to collectors nervously bidding thousands of dollars on antique clothing-irons."
"Mary Lindahl heated her clothing-iron on the kitchen stove and in the early years washed clothes in a brook."
"Vic held out a protective hand, then the blur took shape and looked very much like Marion with a clothing-iron above her head."

Inflected Forms

clothing-irons (plural)

Questions

What does clothing-iron mean?: Rare form of clothing iron.

How to pronounce clothing-iron

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