Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

brown-nosed

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.13 in modern English

Syllables
brown-nosed
IPA
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

Questions

What does brown-nosed mean?
simple past and past participle of brown-nose

How to pronounce brown-nosed

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