Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

göttingen

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.36 in modern English

Syllables: got-tin-gen
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

An independent city in Lower Saxony, Germany.

name

A rural district of Lower Saxony, Germany.

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from German Göttingen.

Inflected Forms

Goettingen (alternative)

Questions

What does göttingen mean?: An independent city in Lower Saxony, Germany.
Where does göttingen come from?: Unadapted borrowing from German Göttingen.

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