winterton-on-sea
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.06 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A village and civil parish in Great Yarmouth district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TG4919).
Etymology
Recorded as Wintretuna in the Domesday Book, the village's name derives from Old English winter (“winter”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”); the suffix on-Sea was added to distinguish this village from Winterton in Lincolnshire.
Origin
- Source language: Old English