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twelfth month

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.50 in modern English

Syllables
twelfth -month
IPA
26
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

December, the twelfth month of the year.

Etymology

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

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Questions

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

How to pronounce twelfth month

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