Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

put one foot in front of the other

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.66 in modern English

Syllables
put one -foot in fron-t of the other
IPA
44
Scrabble Score
27
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To walk, decomposed, to stress the fundamentality of the task.

verb

To move forward, progress steadily.

Inflected Forms

puts one foot in front of the other (present, singular) putting one foot in front of the other (participle, present)

Phrases

one step at a time

Frequently Paired Words

one step at a time

Questions

What does put one foot in front of the other mean?
To walk, decomposed, to stress the fundamentality of the task.

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