Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

wanna contraction

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.45 in modern English

Syllables: wan-na -con-trac-tion
IPA

23

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

5

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A style of contraction (such as want to into wanna, or going to into gonna) that may or may not be possible depending on the sense of to.

Etymology

From wanna (nominalised usage) + contraction.

Inflected Forms

wanna contractions (plural)

Questions

What does wanna contraction mean?: A style of contraction (such as want to into wanna, or going to into gonna) that may or may not be possible depending on the sense of to.
Where does wanna contraction come from?: From wanna (nominalised usage) + contraction.

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