Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

comprehensive school

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.34 in modern English

Syllables: com-pre-hen-sive school
IPA

36

Scrabble Score

19

Letters

4

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

a normal secondary school, accepting pupils of all abilities; replaced the secondary modern schools and grammar schools

British usage

Usage

British usage

Inflected Forms

comprehensive schools (plural)

Synonyms

comp composite school

Questions

What does comprehensive school mean?: a normal secondary school, accepting pupils of all abilities; replaced the secondary modern schools and grammar schools

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