Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

like one's life depended on it

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.39 in modern English

Syllables
like one's life de-pend-ed on it
IPA
36
Scrabble Score
24
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

prep_phrase

Desperately.

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What does like one's life depended on it mean?
Desperately.

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