Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

emergency medical service

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.53 in modern English

Syllables: emer-gen-cy med-i-cal ser-vice
IPA

41

Scrabble Score

23

Letters

6

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A group of professional responders with medical skills who attend to emergencies or disasters by coming to the location of the event.

Inflected Forms

emergency medical services (plural)

Phrases

emergency department emergency room emergency medical technician emergency medicine

Frequently Paired Words

ED ER emergency department emergency room EMT emergency medical technician EM emergency medicine

Questions

What does emergency medical service mean?: A group of professional responders with medical skills who attend to emergencies or disasters by coming to the location of the event.

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