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nut a hardshelled dry fruit or seed with a separable rind or shell and interior kernel The first known use: before the 12th century |
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3 Letters, 1 Syllable |
nut |
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3 Phonemes |
n uh t |
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onset, rime |
n ut |
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Morpheme |
nut |
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Sentence Examples The squirrel cracked the nut and ate the meat inside. The squirrel sat and ate the nut. That guy is a real nut. She's a real baseball nut. |
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Related Words Sound the same but are spelled differently.
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Collocations The habitual juxtaposition of a particular word with another word or words with a frequency greater than chance.
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Neighborhood
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False Friends
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