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Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

oswestry

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.23 in modern English

Syllables
os-westry
IPA
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A town and civil parish with a town council in north-west Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ2929).

name

A former borough in Shropshire, England, abolished on 1 April 2009 and merged into the Shropshire unitary authority.

Etymology

Recorded as Oswaldestroe in 1191, a tree of a man called Oswald; from Old English trēow.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Phrases

Oswestry Rural

Questions

What does oswestry mean?
A town and civil parish with a town council in north-west Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ2929).
Where does oswestry come from?
It is traced to Old English.

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