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boreham

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.95 in modern English

Syllables
bore-ham
IPA
14
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A village and civil parish in the city of Chelmsford district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TL7509).

Countable; Uncountable

name

A former hamlet, now a suburb of Warminster, Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref ST8844).

Countable; Uncountable

name

A habitational surname from Old English.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

From Old English bor (“elevated place; hill”) + hām (“village, hamlet”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

Borehams (plural)

Derived Forms

Borehamwood

Questions

What does boreham mean?
A village and civil parish in the city of Chelmsford district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TL7509).
Where does boreham come from?
It is traced to Old English.

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