Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

infant mortality rate

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.63 in modern English

Syllables: in-fan-t -mor-tal-i-ty rate
IPA

27

Scrabble Score

19

Letters

7

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The total number of deaths in a year among infants under one year of age for every 1,000 live births in a society.

Inflected Forms

infant mortality rates (plural)

Synonyms

infant deathrate infant mortality

Questions

What does infant mortality rate mean?: The total number of deaths in a year among infants under one year of age for every 1,000 live births in a society.

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