charnock
/tʃˈɑɹnək/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.90 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A surname.
Etymology
Two origins: * English habitational surname from the villages of Heath Charnock and Charnock Richard, in Lancashire, probably of Celtic origin and related to the name Cairns. * Americanized spelling of Polish Czarnoch or Slovak Černok; see Cernik.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: -, Czarnoch, Černok