Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

ice-cream van

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.30 in modern English

Syllables: ice-cream -van
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Alternative form of ice cream van.

Example Sentences

"The ruck passes clean through bramble hedges, scattering the circling crowd when the ‘bottle’ breaks loose into the hilltop meadow full of ice-cream vans, pushchairs, picnics and ambulances."
"Maudie must have thought of her dropped ice cream yesterday, because she clamoured desperately for a Whippy when she saw an ice-cream van on the way to the woods, but Alice wouldn’t hear of it."
"And if I ever heard an ice-cream van chiming nearby, I’d drop everything and beg, ‘Ice peam – want one!’"

Inflected Forms

ice-cream vans (plural)

Questions

What does ice-cream van mean?: Alternative form of ice cream van.

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