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bickel

/bˈɪkəl/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.07 in modern English

Syllables
bick-el
IPA
/bˈɪkəl/
14
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A surname from Old English.

Etymology

From an Old English surname, from Bickleigh in Devon, from the personal name Bicca (“pickaxe”) + leah (“wooded area”). For the first element see Proto-Germanic *pikkōną.

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: -, *pikkōną

Inflected Forms

Bickels (plural) Bickell (alternative)

Homonyms

bickle bickell

Rhymes With

nickel pickle trickle tickle sickle fickle mikel nicol brickell nicoll nicholl nickle

Questions

How do you pronounce bickel?
The recorded pronunciation is /bˈɪkəl/.
What does bickel mean?
A surname from Old English.
Where does bickel come from?
It is traced to Old English.

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