Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

every dark cloud has a silver lining

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.71 in modern English

Syllables
ev-ery -dark- -cloud has a sil-ver lin-ing
IPA
51
Scrabble Score
30
Letters
7
Syllables
16
Unique Chars

Meaning

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