Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

one or two

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.85 in modern English

Syllables: one or t-wo
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

det

A small number of.

Example Sentences

"I have one or two things that I need to do."
"Harold Lloyd had had one or two minor comic brushes with railway trains, but the first man to produce real comedy from locomotives was the great poker-faced clown, Buster Keaton."

Synonyms

a couple of a few some

Questions

What does one or two mean?: A small number of.

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