Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

railway sleeper

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.42 in modern English

Syllables: rail-way sleep-er
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A railroad tie.

British usage

Example Sentences

"West's friends were so appalled by the nature of his death that they arranged for a wooden memorial in the churchyard of St Laurence's, constructed aptly from a railway sleeper."

Usage

British usage

Inflected Forms

railway sleepers (plural) railroad sleeper (alternative)

Questions

What does railway sleeper mean?: A railroad tie.

How to pronounce railway sleeper

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