sur-name
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.69 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "We neede not goe farre for other examples, but looke into our Royall houſe, where ſo many partages, ſo many ſur-names, and ſo many ſeverall titles have ſo encombred-vs, that the originall of the ſtocke is vtterly loſt."
- "To his ſur-name Coriolanus longs more pride / Then pitty to our Prayers."
- "It is likewiſe clear, that thoſe who have Sur-names from Lands in Scotland, are deſcended from ſuch Families as were poſſeſs’d of theſe Lands, when Sur-names were aſſum’d, except ſuch as have of late chang’d the Names of their Lands to their Sur-names, which are generally known in the Neighbourhood."