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Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

polk

/pˈoʊk/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.23 in modern English

Syllables
polk
IPA
/pˈoʊk/
10
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars

Meaning

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A surname.

Countable; Uncountable

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A number of places in the United States:

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Example Sentences

Etymology

* As a Scottish surname, shortened from Pollock. * As a Upper Sorbian surname Półk, Pólk, probably shortened from a personal name based on Proto-Slavic *plъkъ (“army, crowd”), see Polka. * As an East German surname of Slavic origin, variant of Polke, itself from a Silesian form of Polish Bolesław.

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: -, *pъlkъ, Bolesław

Usage

Inflected Forms

Polks (plural) polks (present, singular) polking (participle, present) polked (participle, past) polked (past)

Phrases

Polk County

Rhymes With

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Questions

How do you pronounce polk?
The recorded pronunciation is /pˈoʊk/.
What does polk mean?
A surname.
Where does polk come from?
It is traced to Polish.

How to pronounce polk

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