truro
/ˈtɹʊəɹ.oʊ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.79 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
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A city and civil parish with a city council in Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW8244).
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A city and civil parish with a city council in Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW8244).
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A town in Colchester County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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Etymology
Perhaps from Cornish try (“three, very”) + berow (“a boiling”), meaning "(a place of) great water turbulence", where the two fast rivers of Allen and Kenwyn meet to form the Truro. Alternatively, from the Gaulish tribal name Treveri, from Celtic trē ("through") + uer ("water, wet"), meaning "water crossing", in reference to "the people of the river crossing". The town in Nova Scotia is named after the city in England.