Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

purely imaginary

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.62 in modern English

Syllables
pure-ly imag-i-nary
IPA
26
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

Questions

What does purely imaginary mean?
Of a number, having real part equal to zero.

How to pronounce purely imaginary

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