Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

united states customary system

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.52 in modern English

Syllables: unit-ed s-tates -cus-tom-ary sys-tem
IPA

40

Scrabble Score

27

Letters

7

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

n

the system of weights and measures based on the foot and pound and second and pint that dates back to colonial America but differs in some respects from the British Imperial System; today in the United States this system exists side by side with the SI system

Questions

What does united states customary system mean?: the system of weights and measures based on the foot and pound and second and pint that dates back to colonial America but differs in some respects from the British Imperial System; today in the United States this system exists side by side with the SI system

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