Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

not to mention

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.72 in modern English

Syllables: not -to -men-tion
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

4

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

conj

An apophasis used by a speaker to introduce, despite claiming not to address, a given point of discussion.

Example Sentences

"The city was already having staffing difficulties, not to mention having a three million dollar budget shortfall."
"In fact, the immortal tunemeister Irving Berlin wrote all three [songs], along with about 1,500 others, not to mention the scores for eighteen Hollywood films and nineteen Broadway musicals."
"An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic[…]real kidneys[…]. But they are nothing like as efficient, and can cause bleeding, clotting and infection—not to mention inconvenience for patients, who typically need to be hooked up to one three times a week for hours at a time."

Phrases

let alone much less

Frequently Paired Words

apophasis let alone much less

Synonyms

to say nothing of let alone

Questions

What does not to mention mean?: An apophasis used by a speaker to introduce, despite claiming not to address, a given point of discussion.

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