Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

led someone down the garden path

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.32 in modern English

Syllables
led -some-one -down the -gar-den -path
IPA
44
Scrabble Score
27
Letters
7
Syllables
14
Unique Chars

Meaning

Questions

What does led someone down the garden path mean?
simple past and past participle of lead someone down the garden path

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