Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

held for ransom

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.67 in modern English

Syllables
held -for ran-som
IPA
22
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

Questions

What does held for ransom mean?
simple past and past participle of hold for ransom

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