Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

wortyard

/ˈwɝt.t͡ʃɚd/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: wort-yard
IPA: /ˈwɝt.t͡ʃɚd/

15

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A garden where vegetables or herbs are grown.

Example Sentences

"For their wort-yards or orchards we must look not so much to the castle as to the monastery."
"After taking that class I was able to begin planting my wortyard, and to experiment with combining herbs for teas, drying them to preserve them, and making some tinctures, salves, and capsules."

Etymology

From Middle English wortȝerd, woorteȝerd, wyrteard, from Old English wyrtġeard (“vegetable garden”), from Proto-West Germanic *wurtigard (“vegetable garden”), equivalent to wort + yard. Cognate with German Wurzgarten, Würzgarten, Swedish örtgård (“herb garden”).

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: wortȝerd, wyrtġeard, *wurtigard

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˈwɝt.t͡ʃɚd/
British English: /ˈwɜːt.tʃəd/

Inflected Forms

wortyards (plural) wort-yard (alternative) wort yard (alternative)

Synonyms

kitchen garden vegetable garden

Questions

How do you pronounce wortyard?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈwɝt.t͡ʃɚd/.
What does wortyard mean?: A garden where vegetables or herbs are grown.
Where does wortyard come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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