Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

pitfall and gin

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.50 in modern English

Syllables: pit-fal-l and -gin
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An obstacle or impediment, or anything that might trick or ensnare someone.

Example Sentences

""All I know of this old trail [...] is what you can see. I got it from the highroad. I was covering the kite who went in. Where it leads, and if it's beset with "pitfall and gin", I can't say.""
"Thanks, however, to the almost uncanny faculty of the Gurkha for avoiding, in the dark, “pitfall and gin" — in this case tent ropes, ravines, and terraces, these last in some places giving a drop of twelve feet or even more'"
"NOT in the same "head ache" class as Mr O. Richardson's "New Year's Gift," but still with a few pitfalls and gins for the unwary, this innocent six-card problem has a certain novelty of its own."

Inflected Forms

pitfalls and gins (plural) pitfalls and gins (alternative)

Questions

What does pitfall and gin mean?: An obstacle or impediment, or anything that might trick or ensnare someone.

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