Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

back-burnering

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: back--burner-ing
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

present participle and gerund of back-burner

Example Sentences

"For starters, back-burnering malfeasance, usually in the form of graft, risks repeating the kind of disastrous mistakes that the United States made in Afghanistan."

Questions

What does back-burnering mean?: present participle and gerund of back-burner

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