Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

peer-to-peer

/pˈɪɹtupˈɪɹ/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.84 in modern English

Syllables: peer--to-peer
IPA: /pˈɪɹtupˈɪɹ/

14

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

4

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Able to conduct business without using a middleman.

adj

Connected as equal partners and able to share processing, control and access to data and peripherals; decentralized.

Example Sentences

"Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. Those that want to borrow are matched with those that want to lend."
"With the peer-to-peer backup paradigm, each file is copied over to another peer in the system rather than to a central backup site."

Phrases

peer-to-peer economy peer-to-peer lending one-to-one

Frequently Paired Words

one-to-one

Synonyms

P2P

Rhymes With

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Questions

How do you pronounce peer-to-peer?: The recorded pronunciation is /pˈɪɹtupˈɪɹ/.
What does peer-to-peer mean?: Able to conduct business without using a middleman.

How to pronounce peer-to-peer

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