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old wives' tales

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.78 in modern English

Syllables
old wives' -tales
IPA
20
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

plural of old wives' tale

Questions

What does old wives' tales mean?
plural of old wives' tale

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