Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

nijmegen

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.39 in modern English

Syllables: nij-me-gen
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A city in Gelderland, Netherlands.

name

A municipality of Gelderland, Netherlands.

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch Nijmegen.

Origin

Source language: Dutch

Word Breakdown

Root: Nijmegen

Inflected Forms

Nimmegen (alternative, obsolete)

Questions

What does nijmegen mean?: A city in Gelderland, Netherlands.
Where does nijmegen come from?: It is traced to Dutch.

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