Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

waking up and smelling the coffee

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.41 in modern English

Syllables
wak-ing up and s-melling the -cof-fee
IPA
53
Scrabble Score
28
Letters
5
Syllables
18
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

present participle and gerund of wake up and smell the coffee

Questions

What does waking up and smelling the coffee mean?
present participle and gerund of wake up and smell the coffee

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