Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

messing about

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.82 in modern English

Syllables
mess-ing about
IPA
17
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

present participle and gerund of mess about

Questions

What does messing about mean?
present participle and gerund of mess about

How to pronounce messing about

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