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shelf a thin flat usually long and narrow piece of material such as wood fastened horizontally as on a wall at a distance from the floor to hold objects The first known use: in the 14th century |
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5 Letters, 1 Syllable |
shelf |
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4 Phonemes |
S e l f |
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onset, rime |
sh elf |
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Morpheme |
shelf |
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Sentence Examples Put the vase on the shelf. We don't have much shelf space. |
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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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