Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

go spare

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.27 in modern English

Syllables: go s-pare
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To be available or unused.

verb

To become very angry; to become frustrated or distraught: see spare.

British usage; Informal

verb

To be unemployed.

Archaic

Example Sentences

"There's some bacon going spare if anyone wants some more."
"When he found out that someone had broken the window, he went spare."
"The poor girl is going spare, stuck in the house all day with the kids like that."

Usage

Inflected Forms

goes spare (present, singular) going spare (participle, present) went spare (past) gone spare (participle, past)

Questions

What does go spare mean?: To be available or unused.

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