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botten

/ˈbɒtən/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.21 in modern English

Syllables
bot-ten
IPA
/ˈbɒtən/
8
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A surname.

Etymology

Various origins: * English metonymic occupational surname for a maker or seller of buttons, variant of Button. * English topographic surname for someone who lived in a valley, from Old Norse botn (“valley bottom”), or a habitational surname from a place named with this word, like Botton, North Yorkshire. This sense also appears as a Norwegian surname, from the same Old Norse word. Compare Botner.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

Bottens (plural)

Rhymes With

gotten forgotten cotton rotten groton totten wotton cotten misbegotten totton scotton guncotton

Questions

How do you pronounce botten?
The recorded pronunciation is /ˈbɒtən/.
What does botten mean?
A surname.
Where does botten come from?
It is traced to Old Norse.

How to pronounce botten

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