Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

national secondary school

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.46 in modern English

Syllables: na-tion-al sec-ondary school
IPA

34

Scrabble Score

23

Letters

4

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A government-funded or government-aided institution that provides secondary education using the Malay language as the primary medium of instruction.

Etymology

Calque of Malay sekolah menengah kebangsaan

Inflected Forms

national secondary schools (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

national school

Questions

What does national secondary school mean?: A government-funded or government-aided institution that provides secondary education using the Malay language as the primary medium of instruction.
Where does national secondary school come from?: Calque of Malay sekolah menengah kebangsaan

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