Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

passby

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: pass-by
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An instance of one thing passing by another.

noun

A siding for coal tubs.

Example Sentences

"[…] a passby of a moving source. One must be careful to distinguish these from certain measures of total sound exposure received from a moving source during a passby event."

Inflected Forms

passbys (plural) passbye (alternative)

Questions

What does passby mean?: An instance of one thing passing by another.

How to pronounce passby

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