Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hand-waved

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.53 in modern English

Syllables
hand-waved
IPA
20
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

Questions

What does hand-waved mean?
simple past and past participle of hand-wave.

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