Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

held water

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.06 in modern English

Syllables
held wa-ter
IPA
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

Questions

What does held water mean?
simple past and past participle of hold water

How to pronounce held water

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