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shaftesburyan

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
shaftes-buryan
IPA
24
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
2
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of or pertaining to the Earl of Shaftesbury.

Etymology

From Shaftesbury + -an.

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

more Shaftesburyan (comparative) most Shaftesburyan (superlative)

Questions

What does shaftesburyan mean?
Of or pertaining to the Earl of Shaftesbury.
Where does shaftesburyan come from?
From Shaftesbury + -an.

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