Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

bolt-hole

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.95 in modern English

Syllables: bolt--hole
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Alternative form of bolthole.

Example Sentences

"“You are all over the show,” my friend texted me, and for weeks after I endured brutal mockery that my Parisian bolt-hole was about to become a tourist site, like Carrie Bradshaw’s brownstone or the Harry Potter train station platform."

Inflected Forms

bolt-holes (plural)

Questions

What does bolt-hole mean?: Alternative form of bolthole.

How to pronounce bolt-hole

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