Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

death certificate

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.26 in modern English

Syllables
death cer-tifi-cate
IPA
27
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A document issued by a medical practitioner, or by a registrar, certifying the date, location and cause of a person's death as later entered in an official register of deaths.

Example Sentences

Inflected Forms

death certificates (plural)

Phrases

birth certificate

Frequently Paired Words

birth certificate

Questions

What does death certificate mean?
A document issued by a medical practitioner, or by a registrar, certifying the date, location and cause of a person's death as later entered in an official register of deaths.

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