Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

byen

/ˈbjɛn/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.04 in modern English

Syllables: byen
IPA: /ˈbjɛn/

9

Scrabble Score

4

Letters

1

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Example Sentences

"Then some wer fair and fat, some nowt but skin and byen, / And at a tyebble sat a man near twenty styen—"

Etymology

A dialectal reflex of Northern Middle English bane (“bone”), featuring the local change of Middle English /aː/ to /jɛ/.

Word Breakdown

Root: bane

Inflected Forms

byens (plural)

Rhymes With

n count to ten surinen

Questions

How do you pronounce byen?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈbjɛn/.
What does byen mean?: bone
Where does byen come from?: A dialectal reflex of Northern Middle English bane (“bone”), featuring the local change of Middle English /aː/ to /jɛ/.

How to pronounce byen

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