Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

explanatory dictionary

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.23 in modern English

Syllables: ex-plana-to-ry -dic-tionary
IPA

39

Scrabble Score

21

Letters

6

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A monolingual general dictionary, a book that explains the meaning of a language's words using synonyms and definitions in that language.

Inflected Forms

explanatory dictionaries (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

dictionary

Questions

What does explanatory dictionary mean?: A monolingual general dictionary, a book that explains the meaning of a language's words using synonyms and definitions in that language.

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