Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

thousand-year egg

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.23 in modern English

Syllables
thou-sand-year egg
IPA
24
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
3
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A century egg (a Chinese egg dish).

Inflected Forms

thousand-year eggs (plural)

Questions

What does thousand-year egg mean?
A century egg (a Chinese egg dish).

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