fall down
/fɔl ˈdaʊn/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.06 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Ring a-ring o' roses, / A pocketful of posies. / A-tishoo! A-tishoo! / We all fall down. — traditional nursery rhyme (British version)"
- "The beams supporting the roof had rotted, causing the entire house to fall down."
- "Out of spite, the human beings pretended not to believe that it was Snowball who had destroyed the windmill: they said that it had fallen down because the walls were too thin."
- "He describes the operation thus: "The heavy ram employed to impart the finishing strokes, hoisted up with double purchase and snail's pace to the summit of the Piling Engine, and then falling down like a thunderbolt on the head of the devoted timber, driving it perhaps a single half inch in to the stratum below, is well calculated to put to the test the virtue of patience, while it illustrates the old adage of—slow and sure.""
- "That is where your reasoning falls down."
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /fɔl ˈdaʊn/
- British English: /fɔːl ˈdaʊn/