believe it or not
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.43 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
This may be surprising, but it's true.
Example Sentences
- "We're, believe it or not, in love with each other."
- "That depends on how long the sentence is. Believe it or not, there’s a canon of construction about provisos, and the test is anything but clear: …"
- "One common cause of “flipped bit” memory errors is, believe it or not, cosmic rays."
- "The descending opening phrase of the aria is, believe it or not, Tatyana’s Fate theme from her Letter Scene, though now in a minor, not major key: …"
Phrases
Frequently Paired Words
Synonyms
believe or not
surprisingly