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biggar

/bˈɪɡɚ/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.57 in modern English

Syllables
big-gar
IPA
/bˈɪɡɚ/
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A village in Barrow-in-Furness district, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref SD186662).

Countable; Uncountable

name

A town and civil parish of South Lanarkshire council area, Lanarkshire, Scotland (OS grid ref NT045375).

Countable; Uncountable

name

A town in Saskatchewan, Canada.

Countable; Uncountable

name

A rural municipality in western Saskatchewan, Canada; in full, the Rural Municipality of Biggar No. 347.

Countable; Uncountable

name

A habitational surname from Old Norse.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

Probably from Old Norse bygg (“barley”) + geiri (“gore, triangular plot of land”), or from Old English beow + Old English gāra, same meaning.

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: bygg, beow, gāra

Usage

Inflected Forms

Biggars (plural)

Rhymes With

bigger trigger nigger digger rigor vigor wigger crigger sligar

Questions

How do you pronounce biggar?
The recorded pronunciation is /bˈɪɡɚ/.
What does biggar mean?
A village in Barrow-in-Furness district, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref SD186662).
Where does biggar come from?
It is traced to Old Norse.

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