Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

take coals to newcastle

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.95 in modern English

Syllables
take -coal-s -to new-cas-tle
IPA
31
Scrabble Score
20
Letters
6
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

Synonym of carry coals to Newcastle.

Inflected Forms

takes coals to Newcastle (present, singular) taking coals to Newcastle (participle, present) took coals to Newcastle (past) taken coals to Newcastle (participle, past)

Synonyms

carry coals to Newcastle

Questions

What does take coals to newcastle mean?
Synonym of carry coals to Newcastle.

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