Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

threescore and ten

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.70 in modern English

Syllables: three-score and ten
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

2

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

num

Alternative form of three score and ten.

Example Sentences

"We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year."

Questions

What does threescore and ten mean?: Alternative form of three score and ten.

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