Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

took the chiltern hundreds

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.49 in modern English

Syllables
took the chiltern hun-dreds
IPA
40
Scrabble Score
23
Letters
2
Syllables
13
Unique Chars

Meaning

Questions

What does took the chiltern hundreds mean?
simple past of take the Chiltern Hundreds

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