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cairns

/kɛɹnz/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.29 in modern English

Syllables
cairns
IPA
/kɛɹnz/
8
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

plural of cairn

name

A surname from Scots or Irish; variant forms Carnes, Carns.

name

A city and port in Queensland, Australia, named after William Cairns.

name

A local government area in northern Queensland; in full, the Cairns Region.

Etymology

* As a Scottish surname, from Scots cairn, describing a manmade heap or mound of stones. * As an Irish surname, from Ó Ciaráin, Anglicized as Kieran and Kearns, sometimes conflated with the Scottish above.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Regional Pronunciation

  • American English: /kɛɹnz/
  • British English: /kɛənz/

Phrases

Cairns Bay Cairns Region

Homonyms

cairns cans

Rhymes With

cairnes hands fans plans trans hans cans bans mans sans franz pans

Questions

How do you pronounce cairns?
The recorded pronunciation is /kɛɹnz/.
What does cairns mean?
plural of cairn
Where does cairns come from?
It is traced to Irish.

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