dieppe
/diˈɛp/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 2.34 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A coastal town in Seine-Maritime department, Normandy, France.
name
A city in Westmorland County, New Brunswick, Canada.
Example Sentences
- "Two years after ordering the mass internment of German refugees at the start of the second world war, the British government put a small, elite group of them in military uniforms and sent them on a secret cloak-and-dagger mission to occupied Dieppe to snatch an Enigma coding machine from under the Nazis’ noses."
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English Depe, from Middle French Diepe; the modern pronunciation is a refashioning after modern French Dieppe. The city in New Brunswick was named in memory of the Canadian soldiers who fell during the Dieppe Raid in 1942.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: Depe, Diepe
Synonyms
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