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Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

tilsit

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.73 in modern English

Syllables
tilsit
IPA
6
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Former name of Sovetsk: a city in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia.

Uncountable

noun

A light-yellow semihard smear-ripened cheese of East Prussian origin.

Uncountable

Etymology

From German Tilsit, from the name of the Tilse River, from Old Prussian tilzi (“soggy”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: Tilsit, tilzi

Usage

Questions

What does tilsit mean?
Former name of Sovetsk: a city in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia.
Where does tilsit come from?
It is traced to German.

How to pronounce tilsit

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