Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

messing around

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.81 in modern English

Syllables
mess-ing around
IPA
17
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
2
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

present participle and gerund of mess around

Questions

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

How to pronounce messing around

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