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single room occupancy

/ˌsɪŋ.ɡəl ˌɹum ˈɔk.jə.pən.si/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.35 in modern English

Syllables
sin-gle room oc-cu-pan-cy
IPA
/ˌsɪŋ.ɡəl ˌɹum ˈɔk.jə.pən.si/
33
Scrabble Score
19
Letters
5
Syllables
14
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A kind of an apartment with one room and without a bathroom or a kitchen.

Canadian usage; American usage

Regional Pronunciation

  • American English: /ˌsɪŋ.ɡəl ˌɹum ˈɔk.jə.pən.si/
  • British English: /ˌsɪŋ.ɡəl ˌɹuːm ˈɒk.jə.pən.siː/

Usage

Inflected Forms

single room occupancies (plural) SRO (abbreviation) single-room occupancy (alternative)

Questions

How do you pronounce single room occupancy?
The recorded pronunciation is /ˌsɪŋ.ɡəl ˌɹum ˈɔk.jə.pən.si/.
What does single room occupancy mean?
A kind of an apartment with one room and without a bathroom or a kitchen.

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