Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

rained cats and dogs

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.27 in modern English

Syllables
rained -cat-s and -dogs
IPA
23
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

Questions

What does rained cats and dogs mean?
simple past and past participle of rain cats and dogs

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