Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

in-box

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.04 in modern English

Syllables: in--box
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

3

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Alternative form of inbox.

verb

Alternative form of inbox.

Example Sentences

"Academic life, like any other, has a full in-box. A professor can stay busy answering his or her mail."
"Since your next job may not have a very full in-box or a very heavy schedule, and might lack some of the psychic rewards that your previous leadership job had, your state of depression may worsen."
"Our livers were never designed to have such a full in-box, and because most people are nutritionally deficient, the body also lacks the materials needed for detoxification"

Inflected Forms

in-boxes (plural) in-boxes (present, singular) in-boxing (participle, present) in-boxed (participle, past) in-boxed (past)

Questions

What does in-box mean?: Alternative form of inbox.

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