Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

nih

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.35 in modern English

Syllables: nih
IPA

6

Scrabble Score

3

Letters

1

Syllables

3

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

Initialism of National Institutes of Health.

American usage

adj

Initialism of not invented here.

Example Sentences

"“This action aims to ensure that WIV does not receive another dollar of federal funding,” an HHS spokesperson said in a statement. “The move was undertaken due to WIV’s failure to provide documentation on WIV’s research requested by NIH related to concerns that WIV violated NIH’s biosafety protocols.”"

Usage

American usage

Synonyms

national institutes of health

Questions

What does nih mean?: Initialism of National Institutes of Health.

How to pronounce nih

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