Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

heavy-tailed

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.35 in modern English

Syllables
heavy--tailed
IPA
21
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

Inflected Forms

more heavy-tailed (comparative) most heavy-tailed (superlative)

Synonyms

Questions

What does heavy-tailed mean?
Having a heavy tail; leptokurtic.

How to pronounce heavy-tailed

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