Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

guard-dog

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.58 in modern English

Syllables: guard--dog
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Alternative form of guard dog.

Example Sentences

"The houses were mostly silent ; now and then a guard‐dog growled at some occult alarm ; a woman somewhere was softly and fitfully singing a child to sleep, and the baby crooned too, and joined in the vague, drowsy ditty."

Inflected Forms

guard‐dog (canonical) guard-dogs (plural)

Questions

What does guard-dog mean?: Alternative form of guard dog.

How to pronounce guard-dog

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