Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

muddied the waters

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.31 in modern English

Syllables
mud-died the wa-ters
IPA
27
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

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What does muddied the waters mean?
simple past and past participle of muddy the waters

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