Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

bed bath

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.35 in modern English

Syllables: bed -bath
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The washing of a person's body (especially that of a patient) in bed

Etymology

From bed + bath.

Inflected Forms

bed baths (plural) bed-bath (alternative) bedbath (alternative)

Questions

What does bed bath mean?: The washing of a person's body (especially that of a patient) in bed
Where does bed bath come from?: From bed + bath.

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