Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

wheat penny

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.74 in modern English

Syllables: wheat pen-ny
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A US one-cent coin produced from 1909 to 1959, having a portrait of Abraham Lincoln on the obverse and a pair of ears of wheat on the reverse.

Inflected Forms

wheat pennies (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

Zincoln

Synonyms

wheatie

Questions

What does wheat penny mean?: A US one-cent coin produced from 1909 to 1959, having a portrait of Abraham Lincoln on the obverse and a pair of ears of wheat on the reverse.

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