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tenth month

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.90 in modern English

Syllables
ten-th -month
IPA
18
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

October, the tenth month of the year.

Etymology

Named for being the tenth month and to avoid October, as part of a larger trend of avoiding calendar months named after Roman deities and political leaders.

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Questions

What does tenth month mean?
October, the tenth month of the year.
Where does tenth month come from?
Named for being the tenth month and to avoid October, as part of a larger trend of avoiding calendar months named after Roman deities and political leaders.

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