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melhuish

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.36 in modern English

Syllables
mel-huish
IPA
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A surname from Old English.

Etymology

Habitational surname from a minor place in Devon, from Old English mǣle (“variegated, brightly coloured”) + hīwisċ (“hide (of land)”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

Melhuishes (plural) Mellish (alternative) Melluish (alternative)

Questions

What does melhuish mean?
A surname from Old English.
Where does melhuish come from?
It is traced to Old English.

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