musta

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.27 in modern English

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verb

Colloquial

"He musta guessed. There's no other explanation."
"I ran out the kitchen and down the narrow hallway. I passed a staircase on my right that led to the apartment upstairs where T.C. and Miss Lady lived. I'd never been invited up there but I had a colorful picture in my little head about how grand it musta been."

Written form of a reduction of must have.

coulda hadda shoulda woulda mighta oughta

must’ve

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