carleton county
/ˈkɑɹl.tən ˈkaʊn.ti/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.02 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A former county in Ontario, Canada, superseded in 1969 by the Regional Municipality of Ottawa–Carleton, which was superseded by the City of Ottawa in 2001.
Etymology
The county is named after the first lieutenant governor of New Brunswick, Thomas Carleton (c. 1735 - 1817).