bodin
/bˈoʊdɪn/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.13 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
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A surname
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A surname
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A surname
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A surname
name
An unknown-gender given name.
Etymology
* As an English and French surname of Norman origin, from Old French Bodin, a pet form of Bodo, borrowed from Germanic names containing the element *budô (“messenger”). Compare Beaudin. * As a Swedish surname, from the noun bod (“small hut”), compare Bodeen, Boden. * As a German surname, related to sense 1 above, and also from the place Boddin in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
Origin
- Source language: French
Word Breakdown
- Root: -, Bodin