Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

house of cards

/ˈhaʊs.ʌvˌkɑɹdz/

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.71 in modern English

Syllables: house- of -cards
IPA: /ˈhaʊs.ʌvˌkɑɹdz/

21

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A structure made by stacking playing cards in a pyramidal fashion.

noun

Any structure with alternating vertical and horizontal layers.

noun

A structure, argument, or arrangement that is inherently flimsy or fragile and thus might collapse if any adversity were to come along and challenge it.

Example Sentences

"The essentials of megalithic construction are either the single large slab or the large slab as walling stone with another large slab resting on two or more large walling stones as a capstone—a sort of house of cards architecture."
"Dolmens impress only by their massiveness: their house-of-cards construction is the simplest possible […]"
"Also, it has been proposed that lithium ions can be adsorbed on both sides of the graphene sheets that are aggregated disorderly into a “house of cards” architecture, leading to two layers of lithium for each graphene sheet […]"

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˈhaʊs.ʌvˌkɑɹdz/

Inflected Forms

houses of cards (plural)

Phrases

built on sand

Frequently Paired Words

built on sand

Synonyms

cardhouse card-house cardcastle bubble

Questions

How do you pronounce house of cards?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈhaʊs.ʌvˌkɑɹdz/.
What does house of cards mean?: A structure made by stacking playing cards in a pyramidal fashion.

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