Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cross-sill

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.00 in modern English

Syllables: cross-sill
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A railroad sleeper lying under the rails transversely as a support to the stringer.

Inflected Forms

cross-sills (plural)

Questions

What does cross-sill mean?: A railroad sleeper lying under the rails transversely as a support to the stringer.

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