egglescliffe
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A village and civil parish (served by Egglescliffe and Eaglescliffe Parish Council) in Stockton-on-Tees borough, County Durham, England (OS grid ref NZ4113).
Etymology
From Old English Ecgwulf, a given name (cf. German Egulf), + clif (“cliff”). Or else, the initial element may be Cumbric/Proto-Brythonic *egluɨs (“church”).
Origin
- Source language: Old English
Word Breakdown
- Root: Ecgwulf, -, *egluɨs