Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

now and again

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.57 in modern English

Syllables: now and a-gain
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

Synonym of occasionally, sometimes, intermittently.

Example Sentences

"I still go swimming now and again, but not as often as when I was a child."

Synonyms

every now and again every now and then now and then betweentimes occasionally sometimes intermittently on occasion once in a while at times from time to time

Questions

What does now and again mean?: Synonym of occasionally, sometimes, intermittently.

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