Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

keeping up appearances

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.02 in modern English

Syllables
keep-ing up ap-pear-ances
IPA
35
Scrabble Score
20
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

present participle of keep up appearances

Questions

What does keeping up appearances mean?
present participle of keep up appearances

How to pronounce keeping up appearances

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