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skipton

/skˈɪptən/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.41 in modern English

Syllables
skip-ton
IPA
/skˈɪptən/
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A market town and civil parish with a town council in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Craven district (OS grid ref SD9851).

Countable; Uncountable

name

A habitational surname from Old English.

Countable; Uncountable

name

A town in the Shire of Corangamite and the Shire of Pyrenees, south western Victoria, Australia

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

From Old English sċēap (“sheep”) (with change from sh to sk due to Scandinavian influence) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

Skiptons (plural)

Phrases

Skipton-on-Swale

Rhymes With

tipton lipton shipton

Questions

How do you pronounce skipton?
The recorded pronunciation is /skˈɪptən/.
What does skipton mean?
A market town and civil parish with a town council in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Craven district (OS grid ref SD9851).
Where does skipton come from?
It is traced to Old English.

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