Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

detention officer

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.92 in modern English

Syllables
de-ten-tion of-fi-cer
IPA
25
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A jailer.

Inflected Forms

detention officers (plural)

Questions

What does detention officer mean?
A jailer.

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