Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

to be precise

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.13 in modern English

Syllables: to be -pre-cise
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

phrase

Used to correct or modify an earlier statement.

Example Sentences

"We have over 400 school-age children in our camp; it looks like 422 to be precise."

Synonyms

or rather more precisely to be exact actually really properly speaking strictly speaking

Questions

What does to be precise mean?: Used to correct or modify an earlier statement.

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