Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

open university

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.13 in modern English

Syllables
open u-ni-ver-si-ty
IPA
22
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

Questions

What does open university mean?
A UK university offering distance learning taught courses to people without formal academic qualifications, teaching being by correspondence and online with mostly optional tutorials and for some courses compulsory summer schools. Access to postgraduate research is selective and is primarily taught on campus using traditional methods.

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