Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

sleepy hollow

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.49 in modern English

Syllables: sleep-y hol-low
IPA

23

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A census-designated place in Marin County, California, United States.

name

A village in Mount Pleasant, Westchester County, New York, United States.

name

A locality in the Tweed council area, north eastern New South Wales, Australia.

noun

Any very quiet and uneventful locality.

Example Sentences

"Sydney has had the reputation of being a regular Sleepy Hollow compared to the Victorian capital. But, of late, it has waked up."
"Yes, but Tom is somewhere among the Alps just now and there's no one else in this fascinating Sleepy Hollow of yours that we could get in time […]"

Inflected Forms

Sleepy Hollows (plural)

Questions

What does sleepy hollow mean?: A census-designated place in Marin County, California, United States.

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