Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

let a sleeping dog lie

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.28 in modern English

Syllables
let a sleep-ing -dog lie
IPA
23
Scrabble Score
18
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

Alternative form of let sleeping dogs lie.

Inflected Forms

lets a sleeping dog lie (present, singular) letting a sleeping dog lie (participle, present)

Questions

What does let a sleeping dog lie mean?
Alternative form of let sleeping dogs lie.

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