Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

pbk

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.17 in modern English

Syllables: pbk
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

3

Letters

1

Syllables

3

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Abbreviation of paperback.

Example Sentences

"Shiach, Don Make the Grade in GCSE English (Make the Grade in GCSE) Teach Yourself Books/Hodder & Stoughton £2.95 pbk"
"Pbk all the way: Why create 500 copies of a list containing books for which there are only a limited amount of hardback copies?[…]Weed books which are tattered, without covers, etc. Replace with pbk versions."
"Richard Slobodin, W.H.R. Rivers, New York: Columbia University Press, 1978, pbk version, p. 21."

Inflected Forms

pbk. (alternative)

Frequently Paired Words

hbk ebk

Questions

What does pbk mean?: Abbreviation of paperback.

How to pronounce pbk

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