Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

raining like cats and dogs

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.61 in modern English

Syllables
rain-ing -like -cat-s and -dogs
IPA
32
Scrabble Score
22
Letters
6
Syllables
13
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

present participle and gerund of rain like cats and dogs

Questions

What does raining like cats and dogs mean?
present participle and gerund of rain like cats and dogs

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