shattock
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.38 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A surname.
Etymology
Etymology tree Old English *scēaduc Old English scēad Old English āc Old English *Scēadāc Middle English *Shadok? Old English scēat Old English āc Old English *Scēatāc Middle English *Shatok? Hebrew צָדוֹק (Ṣadôq)bor. Ancient Greek Σαδώκ (Sadṓk)bor. Latin Sadocbor.? Middle English Sad(d)oc? English Chadwick? English Shattock Unknown. Various theories include: * An unrecorded Middle English place name: ** *Shadok from Old English *scēaduc (“little boundary”) or *Scēadāc from scēad (“shade”) + āc (“oak”). ** *Shatok from *Scēatāc from scēat (“corner; nook; bay”) + āc (“oak”). * A variant pronunciation of Chadwick. * From the Middle English personal name Sad(d)oc, ultimately from Hebrew צָדוֹק (Ṣadôq, “righteous”)—the name of a high priest during the rule of David and Solomon and numerous characters in the Old Testament, equivalent to modern Zadok. However, the use of this name was rare in medieval Europe.