Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

playing hardball

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.76 in modern English

Syllables
play-ing hard-ball
IPA
27
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

present participle and gerund of play hardball

Questions

What does playing hardball mean?
present participle and gerund of play hardball

How to pronounce playing hardball

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