Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

show one's true colours

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.93 in modern English

Syllables
show one's true -colours
IPA
27
Scrabble Score
19
Letters
2
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

Inflected Forms

shows one's true colours (present, singular) showing one's true colours (participle, present) showed one's true colours (past) shown one's true colours (participle, past)

Questions

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