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idiotville

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
id-iotville
IPA
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A ghost town in Tillamook County, Oregon, United States.

Etymology

From idiot + -ville. Approximately 0.5 miles up Idiot Creek was a site known as Ryan's Camp, a logging operation in the Tillamook Burn. It is said that only ‘an idiot’ would labor there due to its far-flung location, hence the name. The toponym was eventually applied to the stream.

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Questions

What does idiotville mean?
A ghost town in Tillamook County, Oregon, United States.
Where does idiotville come from?
From idiot + -ville. Approximately 0.5 miles up Idiot Creek was a site known as Ryan's Camp, a logging operation in the Tillamook Burn. It is said that only ‘an idiot’ would labor there due to its far-flung location, hence the name. The toponym was eventually applied to the stream.

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