Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

doctor watson

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.10 in modern English

Syllables: doc-tor wat-son
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Alternative form of Watson (“Any character who acts as a catalyst for the detective protagonist's mental processes in a mystery story; a consciousness that is privy to facts in the case without being in on the conclusions drawn from them until the proper time. After William L. DeAndrea, discussing Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.”)

Inflected Forms

Doctor Watsons (plural)

Questions

What does doctor watson mean?: Alternative form of Watson (“Any character who acts as a catalyst for the detective protagonist's mental processes in a mystery story; a consciousness that is privy to facts in the case without being in on the conclusions drawn from them until the proper time. After William L. DeAndrea, discussing Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.”)

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