hardscrabble

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   barely satisfying a lower standard

   “the sharecropper's hardscrabble life”

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Questions about hardscrabble

What does hardscrabble mean?

hardscrabble means "barely satisfying a lower standard".

How many syllables are in hardscrabble?

hardscrabble has 3 syllables: hard-scrab-ble. The stress falls on "hard". In IPA it is /ˈhɑɹdˌskɹæbəl/.

Is hardscrabble a common word?

hardscrabble is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with hardscrabble?

1 word rhymes with hardscrabble. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.