Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

waxed poetic

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.98 in modern English

Syllables
waxed po-et-ic
IPA
26
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

Questions

What does waxed poetic mean?
simple past and past participle of wax poetic

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