contrary to popular belief
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.96 in modern English
37
Scrabble Score
23
Letters
7
Syllables
14
Unique Chars
Meaning
phrase
In opposition to what most laypeople would think is true.
Example Sentences
- "Contrary to popular belief, Columbus was not actually the first person to discover America."
- "I regularly have cause to recall a scene from a novel called Madder Music, by Peter de Vries, in which the main character, a writer who specialises in polo, hears a match announcer telling newcomers to the ground that, contrary to popular belief, the ball is struck with the side of the mallet, rather than the end."