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Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

time travel

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.98 in modern English

Syllables
time -trav-el
IPA
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Travel to the past or to the future, typically by means of a time machine or a wormhole.

Uncountable

noun

The ability to access previous states of a database.

Uncountable

verb

Alternative form of time-travel

Etymology

time + travel

Usage

Inflected Forms

time-travel (alternative) timetravel (alternative) time travels (present, singular) time traveling (US, participle) time travelling (UK, participle) time traveled (US, participle) time traveled (US, past) time travelled (UK, participle) time travelled (UK, past)

Phrases

time travel debugging time-traveler time-traveller time-traveling time-travelling

Frequently Paired Words

time machine

Questions

What does time travel mean?
Travel to the past or to the future, typically by means of a time machine or a wormhole.
Where does time travel come from?
time + travel

How to pronounce time travel

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