Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

raining cats and dogs

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.62 in modern English

Syllables
rain-ing -cat-s and -dogs
IPA
24
Scrabble Score
18
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

present participle and gerund of rain cats and dogs

Questions

What does raining cats and dogs mean?
present participle and gerund of rain cats and dogs

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