Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

learning the hard way

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.80 in modern English

Syllables
learn-ing the hard way
IPA
32
Scrabble Score
18
Letters
2
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

present participle and gerund of learn the hard way

Questions

What does learning the hard way mean?
present participle and gerund of learn the hard way

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