Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

eating one's words

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.22 in modern English

Syllables
eat-ing one's -words
IPA
20
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

present participle and gerund of eat one's words

Questions

What does eating one's words mean?
present participle and gerund of eat one's words

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