Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

packyear

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: pack-year
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A measure of the cigarettes a person has smoked, equal to a pack (of twenty cigarettes) each day for a year.

Etymology

From pack + year.

Inflected Forms

packyears (plural) pack-year (alternative) pack year (alternative)

Questions

What does packyear mean?: A measure of the cigarettes a person has smoked, equal to a pack (of twenty cigarettes) each day for a year.
Where does packyear come from?: From pack + year.

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