cleves
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.18 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Kleve (a town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany).
Etymology
From French Clèves, from Old High German Cleve, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *klibą (“cliff”). Cognate with English cliff. There is no connection with German Klee (“clover”), the clovers in the city's coat of arms being an example of canting arms.
Origin
- Source language: French