Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

welland

/wˈɛlənd/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.43 in modern English

Syllables: welland
IPA: /wˈɛlənd/

11

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

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A habitational surname from Old English.

Countable

Example Sentences

"It must have been the magnetism of the viaduct that towers over the village of Harringworth, and which crosses the flood plain of the River Welland on the border of Rutland and Northamptonshire, which drew my family to living close by when we moved to Britain's smallest county in the early 1990s."

Etymology

No definite suggestion can be made about the origin of the placename in Worcestershire; perhaps from the Old English unattested personal name *Wēna + land (“land”).

Origin

Source language: Old English

Word Breakdown

Root: -

Usage

Inflected Forms

Wellands (plural)

Phrases

Weston by Welland

Rhymes With

mcclelland cleland yelland mclelland breland helland clelland beland pelland belland

Questions

How do you pronounce welland?: The recorded pronunciation is /wˈɛlənd/.
What does welland mean?: A placename:
Where does welland come from?: It is traced to Old English.

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