astbury
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.05 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A village in Newbold Astbury parish, Cheshire East, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ8461).
Countable; Uncountable
Etymology
Habitational surname from the village of Astbury in Cheshire, from Old English ēast (“east”) + byriġ, the dative case of burh (“fortified place”).
Origin
- Source language: Old English
Word Breakdown
- Root: ēast