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lisieux

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.92 in modern English

Syllables
lisieux
IPA
14
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A commune in Calvados department, Normandy, France.

name

A community in the Rural Municipality of Willow Bunch, No. 42, Saskatchewan, Canada, named after Saint Thérèse of Lisieux.

Etymology

From French Lisieux, from Latin Lexoviī, from Proto-Celtic *lexsowiyos (“slanted, crippled”) via Gaulish.

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: Lisieux, Lexoviī, *lexsowiyos, -

Questions

What does lisieux mean?
A commune in Calvados department, Normandy, France.
Where does lisieux come from?
It is traced to French.

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