Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

still-born

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.03 in modern English

Syllables: stil-l-born
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Alternative spelling of stillborn.

Example Sentences

"Such were my early but forgotten productions,—still-born innocents. The writers of the Gulielmian age, of whom so much had been asked, did, of course, just nothing at all for them."

Questions

What does still-born mean?: Alternative spelling of stillborn.

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