penn
/pˈɛn/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.90 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A surname.
name
A place in the United States:
name
A place in the United States:
name
A place in the United States:
name
A place in the United States:
Example Sentences
- "High on a ridge of the Chilterns stands the village from which a celebrated Buckinghamshire family took its name. It was the home of the ancestors, and some of the descendants, of William Penn, the Quaker who in 1682 founded Pennsylvania in America."
- "Well, he [Donald J. Trump] did go to Penn. Whether he got in on merit is a whole other question."
Etymology
* As an English surname, named after various places such as Penn in Buckinghamshire or Staffordshire, of Brythonic origin, from Proto-Brythonic *penn (“(hill) top, head”). * Also as an English surname, from the noun pen (“enclosure”). * Also as an English surname, spelling variant of Parnell. * As a German surname, from Sorbian pien (“tree stump”), from Proto-Slavic *pьňь.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: -, *penn, *pьňь