Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

properly speaking

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.45 in modern English

Syllables: prop-er-ly s-peak-ing
IPA

30

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

5

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

r

Example Sentences

"to be nominally but not actually independent"
"no one actually saw the shark"
"large meteorites actually come from the asteroid belt"
"properly speaking, they are not husband and wife"

Synonyms

actually really strictly speaking to be precise

Questions

What does properly speaking mean?: in actual fact

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