rowen
/ˈɹaʊən/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.03 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A stubble field left unploughed until late in the autumn, so that it can be cropped by cattle.
name
A topographic surname from Middle English.
name
A male given name transferred from the surname.
name
An unincorporated community in Kern County, California, United States.
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Etymology
From Middle English rewayn, from Anglo-Norman rewain, from an Old Northern French variant of Old French regain (“an increase”), from re- + gaigner (“to till, win”). The alternative forms represent replacement of unanalysable final /ən/ with the more tractable suffixes -et, -ing; roughing presumably relies on a lost pronunciation of rough as /ˈɹaʊ/.
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Inflected Forms
rowens (plural)
roughings (alternative)
rowet (alternative)
rowett (alternative)
rowings (alternative)