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blithedale

/ˈblaɪθdeɪl/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.33 in modern English

Syllables
blithedale
IPA
/ˈblaɪθdeɪl/
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

Blithedale Canyon, a neighborhood in the city of Mill Valley, California, United States.

name

A fictional communist community in the 1852 novel The Blithedale Romance, by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Etymology

A placename meaning "happy valley", from Old English blīþe (“happy, gentle”) + Old English dæl (“dale”). Note the anachronistic sense of blithe.

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: blīþe, dæl

Inflected Forms

Blythedale (alternative)

Questions

How do you pronounce blithedale?
The recorded pronunciation is /ˈblaɪθdeɪl/.
What does blithedale mean?
Blithedale Canyon, a neighborhood in the city of Mill Valley, California, United States.
Where does blithedale come from?
It is traced to Old English.

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