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devil's advocating

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.31 in modern English

Syllables
dev-il's ad-vo-cat-ing
IPA
27
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
5
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

present participle of devil's advocate

Questions

What does devil's advocating mean?
present participle of devil's advocate

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