Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

maintaining appearances

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.86 in modern English

Syllables
main-tain-ing ap-pear-ances
IPA
31
Scrabble Score
22
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

present participle and gerund of maintain appearances

Questions

What does maintaining appearances mean?
present participle and gerund of maintain appearances

How to pronounce maintaining appearances

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