children
/ˈt͡ʃɪldɹən/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: 5.47 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A surname.
Example Sentences
- "Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet."
Etymology
From Middle English children, alteration of earlier childre ("children"; > English dialectal childer), from Old English ċildru, ċildra (“children”), nominative and accusative plural of ċild (“child”), equivalent to child + -ren.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: children, ċildru
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈt͡ʃɪldɹən/
- British English: /ˈt͡ʃɪldɹən/