as often as not
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: 5.35 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
prep_phrase
More or less half of the time; on many occasions but not always; frequently.
Example Sentences
- ""[T]hese old people—there's no trusting them, Fred. . . . [Y]ou can't calculate upon 'em, and even then they deceive you just as often as not.""
- ""I am a man that tries to do his duty, and makes a mess of it as often as not.""
- "[I]f he discovered a sale where there were books he would as often as not waste half the next day in going again to acquire a job lot of them."
- "The hall porter said that, as often as not, the flat was untenanted."
- "As often as not, the perpetrators have been other Americans — motivated not by patriotism for a foreign flag, but by simple profit."