Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

selling coals to newcastle

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.94 in modern English

Syllables
sell-ing -coal-s -to new-cas-tle
IPA
31
Scrabble Score
23
Letters
7
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

present participle and gerund of sell coals to Newcastle

Questions

What does selling coals to newcastle mean?
present participle and gerund of sell coals to Newcastle

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