Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

testing the water

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.61 in modern English

Syllables
test-ing the wa-ter
IPA
22
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

present participle and gerund of test the water

Questions

What does testing the water mean?
present participle and gerund of test the water

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