Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

preliminaries

/pɹɪlˈɪmənˌɛɹiz/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.70 in modern English

Syllables
pre-lim-i-nar-ies
IPA
/pɹɪlˈɪmənˌɛɹiz/
17
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

Questions

How do you pronounce preliminaries?
The recorded pronunciation is /pɹɪlˈɪmənˌɛɹiz/.
What does preliminaries mean?
plural of preliminary

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