Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hog-corn ratio

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.42 in modern English

Syllables: hog--corn ra-tio
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The number of bushels of corn equal in value to 100 pounds of live hogs, used by farmers to decide whether it is more lucrative to sell their corn or to feed hogs with it and sell those.

Inflected Forms

hog-corn ratios (plural)

Synonyms

corn-hog ratio

Questions

What does hog-corn ratio mean?: The number of bushels of corn equal in value to 100 pounds of live hogs, used by farmers to decide whether it is more lucrative to sell their corn or to feed hogs with it and sell those.

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