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chatteris

/ˈt͡ʃætɛɹɪs/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.48 in modern English

Syllables
chat-teris
IPA
/ˈt͡ʃætɛɹɪs/
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A market town and civil parish with a town council in Fenland district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL3986).

Etymology

Recorded in the Domesday Book (1086) in the Middle English forms Cetriz and Cateriz. Theories of its derivation include: * a borrowing from an unattested Old Welsh intermediary of Middle Welsh cadeir (“hill-fort”) and Medieval Latin cathedra, akin to Catterick * a derivation from Old English Ceatta (a personal name, as in St Ceatta) + rīc (kingdom, authority) * a derivation from Proto-Brythonic *koɨd (“wood, forest”) + *rrɨd (“ford”)

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

Chateriz (alternative, obsolete) Cheaterizt (alternative, obsolete)

Questions

How do you pronounce chatteris?
The recorded pronunciation is /ˈt͡ʃætɛɹɪs/.
What does chatteris mean?
A market town and civil parish with a town council in Fenland district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL3986).
Where does chatteris come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

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